Word: gowerizing
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...note should be inserted concerning Cunningham's use of the prime dance sin--ugliness. Ugliness often figures in the movements: it is part of experience. The technical competence of this troupe is unsurpassed, hence their awkwardnesses are calculated. They do not want to float like swans or swing like Gower Champion. Cunningham's goal is creating new qualities of experience for his dancers and audiences. His concerts are magnificent events not to be missed...
Pearl has help of a high order-an exuberant cast of dancers that prances up a tropical storm with Gower Champion's expert choreography. Cab Calloway is first-rate as the well-heeled hay and feed man for whom Dolly Levi sets her ostrich plumes; the only pity is that he has so little...
...Catch My Soul is a rock version of Othello. Producer Mitch Miller will revisit John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Arnold Bennett's Great Adventure becomes Darling of the Day, with music by Jule Styne. Plays returning in musical incarnation: The Happy Time, with fail-safe Director Gower Champion and Robert Goulet as leading man; and The Madwoman of Chaillot, by the same team (Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, Composer Jerry Herman) that converted Maine. And now, reversing the old pattern, Broadway is borrowing from Hollywood: onstage, the movie The World of Henry Orient will be known...
...Mary Martin and Robert Preston co-host the Antoinette Perry Awards, Broadway's most glamorous tribute to the best shows and performers of the season. On hand to pass out the laurels: Lauren Bacall, Harry Belafonte, Kirk Douglas, John Forsythe, Marge and Gower Champion, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury...
...Whipped cream and frosting may a wedding cake make-but not a marriage. Only the shimmering talents of two superstars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and the agile hand of Director Gower Champion, make this confectionery adaptation of The Fourposter palatable...