Word: liebmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When TV first became mass entertainment three years ago, nobody had a very clear idea what to do with it. "We started out on TV peeking through a keyhole at a Broadway revue," says Max Liebman, producer of Your Show of Shows (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). When Liebman put on his first TV revue in 1949, dancers practiced in a bare room off Broadway; skits were worked out in cubbyhole offices and washrooms. Liebman's show went on the air without a camera rehearsal and from the stage of a theater. Curtains opened & closed for each number...
Dollies & Process. This week, as Liebman produced his 97th TV revue, television had a lot more technical experience. Liebman's 80-man staff spreads over five floors of a Manhattan building. A $250,000 musical library fills a room nearly as large as his original office. Twelve arrangers, orchestraters and copyists turn out the scores for one week's show. Its half-dozen sponsors pay $150,000 a week to put the show on the air. Last month Liebman built the interior of a submarine at a cost of $2,000, then used the set for only...
Scoops & Baffles. Liebman's actors, now TVeterans, have survived the harsh lights of early TV and, thanks to the new orthicon camera tube, which makes a clearer picture possible with less light, use little make-up and fewer aspirins...
Theater to Come. Liebman believes that TV's technical advances will doom such contemporary makeshifts as remodeled theaters and reconditioned warehouses. He has already blueprinted the ideal TV theater of the future: "It will be a big, empty building measuring 100 by 100 feet, with bleachers at one end for a small audience. One large area will have a 180° cyclorama to form a permanent background for sets and create a genuine illusion of curving space." There should also be a separate property building connected to half a dozen subsidiary studios and a large back lot for outdoor...
Kaye is indebted to his writers, Sylvia Fine and Max Liebman, for some fine material. His script makes full use of his abilities as a singer and a mimic. An excellent example of this is a scene in a movie lobby, in which Kaye careens down stairs, parodies dance steps and movie plots, while screaming lines like this screen credit list...