Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oriental spell extends beyond Miyoshi and Pat. Wilbur, the stern-eyed stage-door guard, feels that the Oriental chorus girls are politer and less brassy than the usual types; the director and the choreographer feel that the whole cast is more disciplined and quicker to learn. Says Oscar Hammerstein: "It's a strange flavor they have. They don't fawn, they don't scrape, they listen carefully. I don't think they're any more intelligent than other people, but I think the intelligence is less obscured by neuroticism." Translates Dick Rodgers: "We have...
...Brother. Throughout the road try-out of any of their shows, and beyond the Broadway opening, R. & H. are omnipresent. In their separate ways, they are intensely paternal toward their cast-Hammerstein gently smiling but a little shy and withdrawn, Rodgers quick, effervescent and always ready with a hug for a chorus girl. Says one member of the cast: "Hammerstein is the Great White Father, but Rodgers is Daddy...
...there is anything about the R. & H. paternalism that the Flower Drum cast dislikes, it is the installation of closed-circuit TV in the St. James Theater, where the show has settled down for its New York run. Not that anyone objects to the stage manager keeping track of the action. But Hammerstein has ordered a cable run to his town house so that he too can monitor the show. Says Larry Blyden: "It's like Big Brother looking over your shoulder. It gives me the willies...
Thirty people have been selected for the cast of Wonderful Town, this year's Drumbeats and Song production, Louise N. Bell '59, director of the show, revealed last night...
Over 70 people tried out Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday for parts in the musical, whose definite cast will be announced today. The show was chosen at an emergency Radcliffe Student Council meeting Sunday as a replacement for the originally scheduled musical adaptation of Gogol's Government Inspector...