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...bestselling novelist (The High and the Mighty, Band of Brothers). He wrote, directed and sold a movie while still in high school, talked his way into the Yale Drama School without bothering with the usual formality of attending college, worked for a while as an assistant to Leon Leonidoff, the Radio City impresario, and filmed screen tests for Warner Bros., all before he thought of learning...
Producers Leon Leonidoff and Russell Markert try to match their own stage ways of life to seasonal variations in the audience. "Naturally, in the fall we'll do a more elegant type of show-for New Yorkers," explains Leonidoff. And what might that include? Leonidoff is trying to line up a team of chimpanzees who play jazz, for example, and Markert is completing the staging of a number in which a girl will be perched atop a pink cloud while an offstage voice sings Sitting on Top of Cloud Nine. Later in the same program, 15 girls will...
Rockettes & Forest Fire. Slight, bustling Leonidoff, 52, a onetime ballet dancer, dreams up most of the shows (300 in the Music Hall's 16 years), with Producers Russell Markert and Florence Rogge taking turns at others. They must keep their dreams expansive enough for the stage's electrical and mechanical powers, plus the talents of guest headliners and a "stock company": the famed precision-kicking Rockettes, the Glee Club, Alexander Smallens' symphony orchestra, and the only resident ballet troupe...
...full-blown splendor, the average hour-long revue rivals Hollywood and dwarfs Broadway. In less prosperous times, the Music Hall turned out a new show every week. In 1948, twelve shows spanned the year. But against a Broadway musical's two months of rehearsal and tryout, Leonidoff & Co. rehearse a new show just ten days-while playing...
Warming himself last week in the glow of his fireworks, Leonidoff was already hatching new spectacles to keep the theater's 6,200 seats filled. One of his pet projects: a cavalcade of the building of the West, opening with a raging forest fire and closing with the San Francisco skyline rising gold-plated out of the horizon...