Word: liebmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the confidence and skill of a high-wire cyclist, Max Liebman each week whips together a 28-man, 1½ hour musical revue called Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV). This week, 48-year-old Producer-Director Liebman displays his real virtuosity by riding two vehicles at once: he is putting on another 1½-hour musical, the Easter special Star-Spangled Revue (Sun. 5:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC-TV), sponsored by Frigidaire and featuring Bob Hope, Beatrice Lillie, Dinah Shore and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., plus his own company...
...Liebman accomplishes his production miracles by working with a veteran team, many of whom have followed him from summer theater to Broadway (The Straw Hat Revue, Tars and Spars, Make Mine Manhattan), "We're hep," he explains. "We simplify things by avoiding too many props and cutting down on un-essentials like sound effects. We lose very little time...