Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night, in black tie, he turned up in the pit of Manhattan's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, where he presided over a performance of Leroy Anderson's brassy musical Goldilocks. Four days later, in a sweatshirt, he was hovering over the orchestra that accompanied Rosalind Russell and cast in a two-hour production of Wonderful Town (see SHOW BUSINESS). The determined gadabout: Broadway Composer-Conductor Lehman Engel, 48, one of the nation's busiest and most versatile men-about-music...
Down at Dunster House, the humanities have taken on an exotic cast this year. An expert on witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts. He is studying art education at Penn State, at the suggestion of Professor Gordon All-port, who also invited him to Dunster House...
...with the public that it was a "monotonous and cold'' work. Nevertheless, he returned to it after 25 years and extensively revised it. Not often performed, the revised Boccanegra is a fascinating melange of early Verdian flamboyance and late Verdian depth. In this LP version a superb cast kindles enough vocal splendors, especially in the ensemble passages, to suggest Boccanegra as a candidate for frequent restaging...
Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari. Fernando Corena; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor, 3 LPs). A young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
Wonderful Town (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Nearly two years on Broadway rate two hours on TV, and Rosalind Russell rates cheers as the heroine of this musical version of My Sister Eileen; with most of the original cast...