Word: offenbacher
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...sound the spaces between the theatre's showings of Hiroshima Mon Amour, Black Orpheus, and even Can-Can. Variety is required: for the first of these three, Norman Dello Joio's Air Power Suite would no doubt suffice; a few bar's of Gluck might enliven the second; and Offenbach is the only answer for the third. Certainly other suggestions are possible, but continuing the present entr' acte offerings is worse than playing Frescobaldi at a Yovicsin press conference...
...backers of the C.D.U. redoubled their efforts and their contributions. But Brandt was hitting the hustings hard; he had covered 13,000 miles, made 503 speeches in whistle-stop tours through West Germany. Last week he was darting out from West Berlin on quickie one-day junkets to Hanau, Offenbach and Hamm, where audiences shouted, "Ich will Willy! [I want Willy]," the kind of cry his election experts learned how to drum up while following the Kennedy and Nixon campaign trails across the U.S. last fall...
...Harvard Opera Guild will present Offenbach's Orpheus in Hades in the Agasiz Theatre at Radcliffe, August...
...group of students with the unofficial backing of the Opera Guild will present Offenbach's Orpheus in Hades during Summer School. Daniel N. Flickinger '62 will produce the comic opera, with William A. Storrer '59 directing...
Miss Rule is attractive as both dame and deity; Ritchard is resourceful at several kinds of deviltry; and when the two dance together, there are moments of charm. But even the better shenanigans get skittish or noisy, and the Offenbach delights are dulled by weak voices or smart-alecky words. Musically, The Happiest Girl in the World is much like re-encountering a bewitching Paris charmer on the sands, and in the spirit, of Coney Island. Squeezed between all that is heavy-handed in the show and all that is tawdry, what has merit is left gasping...