Word: colligan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dress rehearsal next day stretched nine minutes too long and therefore called for cutting. Said Producer Colligan: "Now in the final version, we're killing that little talk you make about the budget...
...crew of 30 arrived last week to set up the show. The show could not be telecast live on Sunday as it has been for two years, said he, "because this is the Bible belt, and you'd never get anybody to work on Sunday." Producer James Colligan agreed to record the show in advance on Ampex visual tape. Just before rehearsals began, a piano arrived from Kansas City; it was the one given to Truman in the White House by James C. Petrillo and his American Federation of Musicians. Truman decreed happily that it would have to appear...