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...tightly interwoven with the plot that each production change in rehearsal can mean a revised orchestration. Once song and dance have been set on stage, giving Kay some idea of their order and length, he begins to make tentative notes for instrumentation. About two weeks before the out-of-town opening, he gets down to serious work, sometimes assisted by as many as four other arrangers (his partner in his Milk and Honey assignment is Jazz Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter). In the final, frenzied weeks before first night on Broadway, Kay must grind out not only the orchestrations for songs...
...Maureen rush to buy the pair with the $102.40 that they have saved up. But they are too late; The Phantom and Misty have been sold. Sensitive ten-year-olds may be assured that matters right themselves, and that Paul and The Phantom are soon outracing an uppity out-of-town boy on a big brute of a horse named Black Comet. Sensitive parents will be glad to know that the whole thing is handled with skill and taste, and that saccharinity-although Grandma Beebe does say once that Paul is "kin to the wild things"-is kept...
...difficulties is a problem that rarely bothered William Randolph Hearst: journalistic responsibility and respectability. In its rip-roaring youth, the Examiner served as a proving ground for Hearst's journalistic shock tactics; it was one of the first U.S. papers to rush reporters to big out-of-town stories by chartered train. But as Hearst aged, the Examiner cooled into the journalistic pillar of his empire-a sober and respected daily that fed its subscribers nourishing doses of foreign, national and local news, frequently played without regard to Hearst prejudices...
...George Abbott, "is to please." Abbott, who has co-authored and produced fifteen musicals and directed ten others, has a reputation in the theater as a ruthless perfectionist whose formula of pace plus "p-zazz" results in a hit nearly every time. This week he has set up out-of-town headquarters at the Ritz Hotel and the Shubert Theater during the pre-Broadway trial of Tenderloin, the tale of "the trial of a boy's soul" during New York...
...trial, mothers came-or were pushed-forward with self-righteous complaints about the corruption of their daughters. Newsmen learned that there had been striptease parties, involving young girls and boys, at the Villa Butard, a onetime royal hunting lodge that was Le Troquer's official out-of-town residence as president of the National Assembly. Some mothers admitted escorting their daughters to Villa Butard and to other addresses in Paris in the belief that it was "in the interest of their careers...