Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, carried by CBS and ABC, had a cast headed by singers Tony Martin, Marion Marlowe and Martha Wright, who set the mood of remembrance with snapshots of Mamie over the years. Their songs, her favorites, were Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Lovely Lake Geneva, The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, Down Among the Sheltering Palms (as a dance team dressed as Mamie and Ike, pre-World War 1, cut figures on the screen), Till We Meet Again, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, Wunderbar...
...lines of the cast at the beginning are often facetious and sometimes excruciatingly funny. After the introduction, however, the players settle down in their roles, and though they never lose spontaneity, they appear to hack around much less. The development of the story, written by Arlene Grimes, Jake Severance, and Mary Carleton, is conventional, but Earle Edgerton's staging shows several imaginative touches. The songs are never really captivating, except for "You Gotta Work for Your Wishes," and "Flowers Are Dancing A Minuet," the theme-song finale which the Children's Theatre has used for its last three shows...
...currently picketing Lyric Productions' second try at winter stock. Whether the pickets are necessary is open to some question. Lyric presents one of Tennessee Williams' great plays, with a fine female lead performance. For the rest, the production is semi-professional, in the sense that only half the cast performs with much competence. Given a bit of amateurish inadequacy, however, Summer and Smoke can be enjoyable to those who just want to see a good Williams play or to those who admire a good single performance in the midst of discouraging surroundings...
...happened in Vienna last fall. When she burst into Carmen's Habanera on the Theater an der Wien stage, she was just an unusually handsome singer from the states. When she finished the song, the house vibrated with ecstatic shouting, and she was a star. One cast member counted 45 curtain calls. The less-demonstrative Met was not so generous last week when the curtain came down (on St. Patrick's Day) on its new Carmen (only about 15 calls), but happy Jean Madeira was serenaded with applause and pelted with green carnations. "I'd be glad...
Richard III. Shakespeare's sinister parable of power is made into a darkly magnificent film by Sir Laurence Olivier, who plays the title role with fiendish skill and satanic majesty. The supporting cast: Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown (TIME, March...