Word: flusser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTER DINNER OPERA COMPANY is the freshest of half a dozen small opera groups and workshops (including the lighthearted Punch Opera, the experimental Opera '57 and the ambitious Amato Opera Theater, which changes its standard opera bill every three weeks). The company-headed by Stage Director Richard Flusser, 29-was launched with a capital of $250 in 1949, lost $2.68 the first season but has been making modest profits ever since. Flusser has more than tripled the original $65-a-week salaries of the six young members of the troupe. After Dinner has been successful because it staged sprightly...
...Then a fat check arrived from one admirer, and the company eagerly plunged into commercialism to raise the rest. Singers Jeanne Beauvais, Norman Myrvik, Francis Barnard and Musical Director Lucille Burnham gave all the concerts they could. Stage Manager Beth Leibowitz made and sold ceramics, while Company Manager Richard Flusser hopefully entered a TV quiz show named Tic Tac Dough (he won a watch, but no dough). By last month they were so nearly solvent that they embarked...