Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to this unevenly matched couple is Sangazure and Pointdextre as played by Elizabeth Stearns and David Stone. Both are fine actors and, although Miss Stearns' diction is a trifle unclear, their singing is good enough to make their first act duet one of the highpoints of the evening...
...performed last week, the 15-minute concerto (built around a simple theme from the old hymn He Leadeth Me!) proved to be an engaging and often witty piece, full of surprising melodic invention. It had a finely calculated balance of sound throughout, was notable for a mellow duet of drums and cellos in the second movement, and a satirical statement of the theme by four drums and orchestra in the third movement. Because Composer Parris used comparatively little bass, the music in certain spots gave the impression of a billowing cloud of strings floating aimlessly over the deep thunder...
Despite its glittering cast and artier-than-thou approach, the show now and again came slowly out of the tube. Not without lively spots (notably a duet of Baby, It's Cold Outside, incongruously teaming Rock Hudson and Mae West, and a song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that...
...love with one Donald Hopewell. The nurse discourages the doctor with a wallop ("Touché, Miss Markham; I deserved that"), and the etherized Donald is saved just as the doctor is about to put him under the knife. The curtain rings down as the principals alternate a love duet with commercials for Lochinvar ("the soap of silken supremacy") and Billy Boy Wax ("the waxy wax that spells relax"). The action unfolds to the accompaniment of some thunderous cliches: "You remind me of someone I knew long, long ago"; "Love is just the most important thing that can happen...
...characters no longer walk in mincing steps, or tuck their hands in their sleeves, movements characteristic of China rather than Japan. The fireflies that spangled the night sky during the love duet in Act I have been abandoned (there are no fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that...