Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a few performers struggled over a balky bit of dialogue, the rest of the cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front...
GRACE GRIMALDI (nee Kelly), who stays in tune but needs a bit more lung to outgroan Old Pro Bing Crosby in the last chorus of True Love (Capitol), from the sound track of High Society...
...time and time again the result is sparkling. A few of the lyrics are unexciting and some of the music is dull, but these are the exceptions as the audience is always tapping, sometimes humming, occasionally clapping in beat with the kick line, and once joined in for the chorus of a calypso number...
...many other characters who filtered across the stage one deserves special mention--the West Indian Songstress of the unlikely name of Lady Godiva who was played by Pete Gaynor with enthusiasm and a grotesquely good delivery. The chorus of butlers and maids entertained the audience almost as much as they entertained themselves, which evidently was considerable. There were at least four split dresses on stage...
...17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg. The effect of a lusty male chorus singing this with a Brass Choir is enough to revive the old tune to unimagined, if somewhat humorous, grandeur...