Word: impresarios
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...under way, he tries to persuade a famous Russian ballet company to perform a modern dance by one of his students, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The inevitable complications ensue. The prima ballerina (Natalia Makarova) makes advances. Poor Frankie Frayne, Junior's true love, despairs. The ballet's impresario discovers the professor's terrible secret-that he lives to dance-and talks him into starring in the climactic number himself...
...always unpredictable. It is hard to tell whether she is acting or merely enjoying herself, but in the end it scarcely matters. Her zest is infectious and leaps across the footlights. In other major parts, Christine Andreas is a touching, warm-voiced Frankie, George S. Irving is an amusing impresario, Dina Merrill is silkily elegant as the ballet's rich sponsor, and George de la Pena is convincing as Makarova's partner and lover...
...British Impresario Eric Douglas Morley is the man who launched commercial bingo in Great Britain and inaugurated a television program in 1949 called Come Dancing that has been broadcast by the BBC ever since. Few things are as close to Morley's heart, however, as the Miss World beauty contest, which he founded in 1951. He established it as a racier international version of the Miss America pageant and served as the announcer and chairman of the beauty judges...
...Broadway and 39th Street, which was built in 1883, was outmoded, and Bliss became a chief proponent of a move to a new structure in Lincoln Center. He won his argument, and the company journeyed north in 1966. But following a feud with Rudolf Bing, the Met's impresario from 1950 to 1972, he was pushed aside as board president. When Bing's successor, Schuyler Chapin, failed to curb the escalating deficits, Bliss was brought in as a salaried executive to put the house in order...
...deliberately assigned creative authority to Levine and the rest of the quartet. "Basically," he says, "I don't consider myself qualified to make musical or even artistic decisions. I exercise veto power only very seldom and with great reluctance. I don't think a traditional impresario could function any longer in this job. There is not enough time to do everything. Levine tells me what he wants, and I may have to go back to him and say, 'We can't afford to use so-and-so because everything he does is too expensive...