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...Perry award for best musical of the year. Still, the Boston production is far superior to the New York one, thanks mostly to the new lead players. The male lead switched from Richard Kiley to Howard Keel, seasoned star of Oklahoma and Carousel, and the female lead, played by Diahann Carroll in the New York version, went to the equally beautiful but more bouyant Barbara McNair...
...successes only heighten the general sense of frustration that Negro actors share. Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis in summer stock can be accounted for by their great box office appeal. But for the journeyman Negro actor-and even for such established Negro stars as Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil and Diahann Carroll-there is a disconcerting scarcity of parts. "It's very discouraging," says Miss Dandridge. "Sometimes they'll hire actresses and shade them with makeup until they're down to the color I am to play a role I could play as well." Negroes of undeniable talent...
...equally stupid on both sides." The roles that remain are scarce and sometimes harmful to the actor, and many Negro actors can find no work at all. "Qualified people are not even allowed to audition," says Diahann Carroll, star of the Broadway musical, No Strings, which owes its faint critical success entirely...
...eyes never left his face, and I could see his jaw drop." Brooks designed Diahann Carroll's clothes in No Strings as exaggerations of his loose, clean-lined trade designs-"not because I believe in exaggeration, but because subtleties don't carry beyond the fifth row." Brooks's designs carried far enough...
David Jordan (Richard Kiley) is an expatriate ''Europe bum,'' a permanent house and party guest on the Paris-Monte Carlo-St. Tropez axis. He once wrote a Pulitzer Prizewinning novel and now has trouble whisking the dust off his typewriter. Barbara Woodruff (Diahann Carroll), tall and graceful as a flamingo, has taken a long-legged step from a Harlem fire escape to a high-fashion perch as the best-paid model in Paris. Her philosophy: "I just want money, and then some money, and loads of lovely love...