Word: kanin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's hilarious performance puts zest into an overlong adaptation of the Garson Kanin stage hit (TIME...
...give Strauss's 76-year-old Viennese farce of double identities and doubles entendres a shining new face,* he called on Playwright-Director Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. Lyricist (Inside U.S.A.) and M-G-M Vice President Howard Dietz supplied Kanin's "free adaptation" with a new English-speaking voice. Designer Rolf Gerard was recruited to repeat his earlier scenic success with Don Carlo; pint-sized Conductor Eugene Ormandy was borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The only thing not touched: Strauss's score, which, says Kanin, was "protected like a delicate child...
Bubbles & Champagne. Director Kanin and Conductor Ormandy, both working for the Met for the first time, could hardly have been more solicitous of their delicate charge. From the minute the gold curtains parted, a white-tie-and-tails audience saw a production that fizzed like dry old champagne...
...next new production, due in December: Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, staged by Broadway and Hollywood's topnotch director, Garson Kanin...
...Kanin's Leo Mack (nicely played by Scott McKay) kicks up a fair amount of routine commotion, but he is miles behind any of a dozen Ring Lardner heels. In fact the whole setup, only substituting sex for ice hockey, recalls Dan Baxter and the brothers Rover. Sex-with almost willful bad taste-is worked for any laugh it can raise, at any level...