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...Three-Ton Tanks. Patrice has loved audiences ever since she was twelve, when she played to her first one in Spokane, Wash. But it took her 13 hard years to make the love affair mutual. Last season she fairly stole the show as the saucy maid Adele in Fledermaus. Her flashing Musetta last week-her first time in the role-proved that she has reached the top of her operatic class. General Manager Rudolf Bing, a man who likes understatement, calls her a "superb soubrette-probably without competition at the moment...
...good for her, the next summer she talked herself into the cast of a West Coast Rose Marie, and worked hard on her comedy timing and spoken lines. By then she had discovered that she was "an incurable ham." In the winter, she was ready to run away with Fledermaus ("You wouldn't think you could have that much...
...Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a candy heir who shared the same apartment under an agreement that whoever married first would have his bride move in. Plot: Juarez falls in love with Munsel, Schuler with Mundy. Everyone decides this is a mistake, so they switch affections and engagements. Climax: denials on the part of everyone but Juarez. The whole story, they...
...that was missing was scenery. But an excellent cast, with John (Fledermaus) Brownlee as Harlequin, Soprano Martha Lipton as his wife, and Bass-Baritone James Pease as the priest, just about made up for that...
...Metropolitan's hilarious version of Die Fledermaus is playing nightly at 8:30 in the Opera House. This combination of Straus and slapstick will make a fine entertainment this afternoon, starting...