Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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G is for Gagaku, a magnificent mixture of myth and musical drama fostered for more than 1,000 years at the Japanese imperial court and now seen for the first time in the U.S. See Music.
The highly stylized mixture of musical drama and myth that the Imperial Dancers brought with them is known as Gagaku, meaning "noble and elegant music." Imported to Japan from China in the 8th century A.D., Gagaku was confined to the court in the 17th century, has been seen by the...
So recalls June Havoc, successful cineminx, Broadwayward girl (Sadie Thompson, Pal Joey), Shakespearean (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and grown-up (41) kid sister of Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. June, who was worked so hard as a child star that she never learned how to write properly in longhand...
Gypsy (book by Arthur Laurents; music by Jule Styne; direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins) opened to breathless rave reviews. Burbled the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Best damn musical I've seen in years." Said Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "Most satisfactory musical of the season." The...
Redhead. A theatrical thoroughbred (Gwen Verdon) carries this plow-jockey musical into the winner's circle.