Word: dybbuk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's story about a young girl believed possessed by a dybbuk (evil spirit) fails to save fantasy from sentimentality but succeeds as a genuine theater piece...
...they come out of habit or boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums and who, he thinks, is possessed of a dybbuk or evil spirit that must be exorcised. Amid prayer and prattle, amid the girl's infatuation for the young lawyer, the young lawyer's involvement with his analyst, the old rabbi's rapt communings with his God, the synagogue prepares for the exorcism ceremony. In the rather...
...tough baritone part to be sung these days, the call is likely to go to a modest 42-year-old Texan named Mack Harrell. In his 15 years as a professional, he has sung such larynx-cracking roles as the lead in Wozzeck and Rabbi Azrael in The Dybbuk; last season he gave more concerts with orchestra than any other U.S. baritone. Last week, at a time when most hard-working men were snoozing in vacation hammocks, Mack Harrell was still at it: singing Virgil Thomson's intricate new Five Songs of William Blake at Aspen...
...happy result of the script shortage, desperate TVmen have dipped gingerly into the classics and come up with productions-of Ibsen, and Rostand, Pirandello, Chekhov and Shakespeare. Studio One pioneered with adaptations of Turgenev's Smoke, Henry James's The Ambassadors, Sholom Ansky's The Dybbuk, and has also done a modern-dress Julius Caesar and a Grand Guignol version of Macbeth. Other shows dramatize news stories, historical anecdotes, biographies...
...York City Opera atoned for its delay with a brilliant production. With fine dramatic performances by Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway and Tenor Robert (Tales of Hoffmann) Rounseville, The Dybbuk was well worth the 18-year wait...