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Dance Explosion. The one person most responsible for the dance explosion in America is Nureyev, whose leap through the Iron Curtain 13 years ago triggered a potent curiosity about dance in the public psyche. George Balanchine, doyen of choreographers, pronounced Nureyev oldfashioned, and as usual he was right. For Nureyev immediately set about restoring the male to early 19th century heliocentric prominence. There was nothing middling about his spirit: he was a real-life Albrecht right out of Giselle with a rampaging case of the willies...
...mice squad" and the dwarfish Munchkins, Geoffrey Holder displays a breathtaking flamboyance of design and color. This wickedly amusing show is a sight for glad eyes, and parents who take young children along should be forewarned that they may have trouble ungluing them from their seats when the final curtain falls...
...apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Beginning Christmas Day, 1931, Cross announced Texaco's Metropolitan Opera performances from December to April for 43 years, intoning with hushed excitement countless Saturday afternoons, "The house lights are dimming, and in a few moments the Metropolitan's great golden curtain will rise...
...floor itself was rigged up to look like an unsophisticated T.V. game show. Red, white, and blue bunting hung everywhere. It crawled up poles and over balconies and spawned innumerable small American flags. A big blue curtain hung at the back of the podium with brassy gold letters spelling out "We the Democrats of the United States." Red and white box-shaped signs proclaiming the names of the different delegations matched the red and white phone banks and harmonized well with the lines of blue-cushioned chairs...
...show people expected to have fun at; the night I went, half the house was composed of members of the Victorian Society of Boston, some of whom were decked out in capes and purple silk cravats and false moustaches. The orchestra played "God Save the King" before the curtain went up--an affectation, but a high-spirited one. Even an uncolorful production can't frustrate an audience of Gilbert and Sullivan-ophiles intent on enjoying themselves. But such a production does limit the real fun to those who can compensate for its limitation with their memories of other productions, their...