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...openers, the company staged its pièce de résistance, a robust rendering of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by a lavish, streamlined Swan Lake featuring nothing less than the reigning tandem of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had volunteered their services and spent one week of intensive rehearsals mastering the myriad refinements of Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Season premiere. Tonight's guests include Anna Moffo, Rudolf Nureyev, Richard Tucker and Robert Preston...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Dancer Rudolf Nureyev and Tenor Franco Corelli, Conductor Wilfred Pelletier...
...Tomorrow (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A special on the Repertory Company of Lincoln Center, narrated by Elia Kazan, featuring a brief excerpt from Arthur Miller's new play After the Fall, performed by Jason Robards Jr. The Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, Singer Florence Henderson, Cellist Michael Flaksman...
...steps are modern and functional, with never a tour jeté, never an entrechat or a grand fouetté. Manhattan first-nighters, who sat through its half-hour length with scarcely a rippling interruption of applause, demanded 16 curtain calls, with Jacqueline Kennedy clapping energetically enough for two. Nureyev's magnetic personality demands an audience's attention. In Swan Lake, he disclosed some of his enormous technical facility, and in Marguerite, with less chance to dance, he demonstrated that he can also act. But so much of his talked-of talent is yet to be revealed that...