Word: orpheus
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...scene is the ruins of Athens, among which a few gods and goddesses still philander alongside the tourists. Orpheus, a hearts-and-flowers fiddler, plots with Pluto to get rid of his wife Eurydice, although she is really very fetching in her tight red pedal pushers. While Pluto and "Eury," as she is known to her friends, take off for a tryst in hell, trouble develops on Olympus, where an amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass...
...goes Orpheus in the Underworld, Jacques Offenbach's delightful spoof of Greek mythology, presented in English by the New York City Opera Company last week. The stylishly scant scenery (including a tricky, tilted revolving stage) is handsome; the staging is often funny; and the music is as charming as it was 100 years ago. Under the firm and concise direction of Vienna-born Erich Leinsdorf, 44, who left the Rochester Philharmonic to become the City Center's new musical director, the brilliant score is beautifully played. The trouble with Orpheus is its new libretto, which seemed determined...
...Orpheus & Romanoff. Patrick Dennis's bestselling novel Auntie Mame will star Rosalind Russell. Samuel (Boy Meets Girl) Spewack will try to reconquer Broadway with Once There Was a Russian. Britain's Peter (The Love of Four Colonels) Ustinov will make his bid with Romanoff and Juliet. Terence Rattigan will offer two comedies that amused London for a couple of seasons, Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince. Tennessee Williams' newest, Orpheus Descending, will descend on Broadway with Italy's Oscar-winning Anna Magnani...
...some of Tabou's guests. To Le Tabou came the existentialists and their friends-Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Christian Berard, Albert Camus and Jean Cocteau. They dubbed Greco and her band "Les Rats des Caves," fed and clothed them. Cocteau gave Greco a small part in his film Orpheus. In 1949 she launched her singing career...
...that point Cocteau more or less returned to the original. Proserpine--rechristened Death and played by Nora Shattuck with an air of mystery and grandeur--sends Eurydice to hell, where Orpheus follows her to bring her back. But after the second disappearance of Eurydice and the death of Orpheus himself, Cocteau once more changes direction to add a comic scene involving a Police Commissioner, acted by Richard Gediman, and to tack on a finale which brings the principals back on the stage and explains some of the symbolism...