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...drawer director (The King and I), novelist (The Vicarious Years); of a heart attack; in Thermal, Calif. A reserved bachelor, London-born Van Druten turned from law teaching to drama in 1926, scored flashy success with sophisticated, bittersweet comedies (The Voice of the Turtle, There's Always Juliet...
Romanoff and Juliet (by Peter Ustinov) is the sort of title that suggests it might have inspired the rest of the show. In any case, the show itself-a comedy laid in "the smallest country in Europe" -has the Soviet ambassador's son and the U.S. ambassador's daughter falling madly in love. It has the two embassies in a predictably farcical tizzy over the news, and it has Actor-Playwright Ustinov, as the bearded, pince-nezed, messily over-adorned head of the country issuing directives to his two-man army, lending a sly hand to the romance...
This exchange, accompanied by a long-winded, brassy orchestra with lots of percussion and no fiddles, was sung last week on a Berlin stage. Abstract Opera No. 1 was the work of two leading German composer-librettists, Boris Blacher. (Romeo and Juliet, Prussian Fairytale) and Werner Egk (Columbus, Irish Legend). The work was produced with deadpan literalness and conducted by Hermann Scherchen, one of Europe's famed conductors. Nobody in the audience shouted "Shoot the composer!" or "Hang the conductor!" In fact, to Composer Blacher's amazement, a capacity crowd received the work cordially, demanding many curtain calls...
West Side Story (book by Arthur Laurents; music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim) gave the new season what should prove a very popular retelling of Romeo and Juliet-in terms of youthful gang warfare. It also suggests that the salvation of the serious Broadway musical may lie in neither text nor music-which, trying to coalesce, all too often merely collide-but in dancing...
Married. Margaret Leighton, 35, veteran British star of stage (the Old Vic, Separate Tables) and screen (The Constant Husband); and Laurence Harvey, 28, Lithuanian-born, dark-haired British cinemactor (I Am a Camera, Romeo and Juliet), who was named as corespondent in her 1955 divorce from Publisher Max Reinhardt; she for the second time, he for the first; in Gibraltar...