Word: impresario
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...School of American Ballet. The grants indeed entrust Balanchine with the future of classical dance in America. But though the honor may be Balanchine's, the victory belongs to the man whose name followed Balanchine's in all the announcements: Lincoln Kirstein, 56, Balanchine's patron, impresario, adviser and friend...
...Impresario Aurelio Fabiani, who pro motes wrestling when he isn't baby sitting, raced after him, pleading and cajoling. After a long, cooling walk in the streets, Di Stefano agreed to sing -on one condition: the programs must be gathered up and brought to his dressing room. The curtain went up 25 minutes late, and Di Stefano sang nicely, step ping out of character at every hint of applause to bow grandly. The ushers snatched the offending programs back from his dressing room at the final cur tain and passed them out to the departing crowd. Thus those whose...
JENNIE fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic impresario of a husband. Mary Martin is in top form, but she is the only thing that is in this bottom-drawer musical...
...another of Broadway's disenchanted evenings devoted to the theme that showbiz is woebiz. The latest musical fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit, and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic, footloose, hot-air impresario of a husband. Amid the encircling gloom, only Mary Martin shines with an inextinguishable light...
...Bulldozers. Romper Room headquarters is in Baltimore, where the show was originated ten years ago by Bert Claster, a vaudeville impresario who had spotted longer green in TV. His wife Nancy became the first Romper Room teacher. Soon CBS made an offer to Claster, but Claster had another idea. A Norfolk, Va., TV station manager had asked if he could imitate Romper Room. "No," said Claster in effect. "I'll make a copy and send it to you." He trained a teacher, sent her to Norfolk with a kit of sets and props and kept her supplied with scripts...