Word: doe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candide & Li'l Abner. Producers, writers and musicians have been working on a whopping list of 34 musicals-at least ten of which will probably see an opening night on Broadway. The list ranges from the operatic Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16) to a musical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide by Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman, Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and Poet Richard Wil bur. There are also such suggestions of enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner...
...Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...
...celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor became the richest man in Colorado, and this attracted 20-year-old Baby Doe, who blew into Leadville in 1881, established herself as Tabor's mistress and persuaded him to divorce his wife. As an interim Senator in Washington, he married Baby Doe in a lavish ceremony attended by Congressmen, diplomats and President Chester A. Arthur himself. But when silver fell...
...remaining six years of his life he eked out an existence as a postmaster and by the sale of his lavish possessions (including his collection of $700 nightshirts). The story gets its special twist from the fact that Baby Doe remained faithful to him to the end. For 36 years after his death she lived on Tabor's last silver property in Leadville, rarely left the place and was found frozen to death there in a dilapidated shack...
...this invitingly gaudy material Composer Moore has wrought a clean, melodious score which succeeds in conveying strong period flavor without being condescendingly folksy. Its melodic high spots include Baby Doe's Willow Song, the stunning Silver Song (sung by Met Coloratura Dolores Wilson) and a moving choral, Lovely Evening. Sophisticated musically, the score nevertheless is marked by a clarity rare to the U.S. opera stage. "Most composers today seem to be writing under such influences as Schoenberg and Stravinsky," says Moore. "I tried to return to melody as the key to communication." Others will get a chance to decide...