Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still as nimble as he was back in 1936 when Broadway gave him stardom, for his part in George Balanchine's difficult Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet, in On Your Toes. Eventually he emerged as a character comic who could also deliver a wistful lyric. By Where's Charley?, he was translating most of life into impish leaps and droll gesture. "In show business," says Bolger, "whatever one can do with one's body is infinitely better than what one can do with words...
...Federal Court in Manhattan's Foley Square had not been so lively since Estes Kefauver interviewed Frank Costello. A House Judiciary subcommittee, holding hearings on monopolistic practices in the broadcasting industry last week, wound up testimony from leading tunesmiths, lyric writers and librettists. Upstaging Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler were Librettists Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II, Dorothy (I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby) Fields and Otto (Roberta) Harbach; Composer Stanley (What a Difference a Day Made) Adams, Occasional Songwriter Billy (Barney Google) Rose. Their statements were all designed to show...
...syncopation that sounds like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating-call sounds; an electric guitar turned up so loud that its sound shatters and splits; a vocal group that shudders and exercises violently to the beat while roughly chanting either a near-nonsense phrase or a moronic lyric in hillbilly idiom...
Night falls, and Pierrot sits alone in the deserted marketplace. The folded tents of the merchants stand tall and sad as cypresses. The lady and her lover appear, and dance together a sensuous adagio. Sombert is lovely in this lyric piece, and Youskevitch is starkly splendid in his solo dance. The clown, mad with jealousy, climbs to the wire. He will prove, though he dies, that he is a man, and die he does. He lies broken in his lady's scarlet mantle, like a white bird in a pool of blood...
...February Managers Carol Fox and Lawrence V. Kelly, both 29, and Artistic Director Nicola Rescigno tangled in a struggle for power-and Chicago's other musical movers and shakers joined in behind the scenes. Last week, after minuets of mediation, largos of litigation and concertos of comment, the Lyric was ordered into receivership (the receiver: Chicago Bar Association President Augustine J. Bowe). with its assets and liabilities probably to be assigned to a new corporation called Opera Theater Association, heavily backed by Carol Fox's friends...