Word: marius
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Kidman found her singing voice quickly ("there was a real sweetness of tone from the outset," says musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...
...Marius Petipa...
...well as the extreme challenges it presents to an ensemble as a whole. Set to the music of Ludwig Minkus, the 123-year-old ballet epic premiered in Boston for the first time last week in the ornate Wang Theater. With choreography by artistic director Anna-Marie Holmes after Marius Petipa's original, this was an ambitious enterprise in innovation and the preservation of tradition...
...Faculty and students remembered Marius--who taught classes on such writers as Shakespeare, Twain and Faulkner--as a devoted teacher and "Southern gentleman" who loved writing. He retired from Harvard last year after becoming sick in order to finish his fourth novel...
...other novels, The Coming of the Rain , Bound for the Promised Land and After the War, portray individuals interacting with major historical events between 1850 and 1950. They are all set in Marius' native Tennessee...