Word: petit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While bright young (26) French Choreographer-Dancer Roland Petit was flashing and stomping through his sexy Les Ballets de Paris hit, Carmen, on Broadway last year (TIME, Oct. 17,1949), some other ideas were writhing around in his head...
...wall of Roland's adjoining bedroom to make it fit. At night, young Roland could see a little into the cafe; he remembered particularly one regular customer, a "beautiful woman," of whom he could seldom see more than a white arm and shoulder. Another idea in Petit's head came from watching a performance of South Pacific with his Carmen, tiny, bob-haired Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire. He had come out impressed with the gaiety of U.S. musicomedy; she had come out sighing, "I would like to sing like Mary Martin." Somehow, Petit wanted...
...could neither read nor write music; so he bought a recording machine and sang his songs into it. Musical friends helped put his songs on paper, added full lyrics. Eager little "Zizi" Jeanmaire ("Sure I can sing") looked them over, sang her song into the recording machine. Says Petit: "She sounded awful." She went to work with a pianist, and Petit began planning the choreography. Last week, back on Broadway for another season, Petit sidetracked Carmen to put on the result: La Croqueuse de Diamants (The Diamond Cruncher). Right...
First-night fans saw a brilliant revolvable set of a little Paris street corner and its bistro. In his scenario, Petit turned the "beautiful woman" of his childhood into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance...
Died. Pierre Roy, 70, whose gaily colored, meticulous paintings of unfamiliarly arranged familiar objects,won him recognition as a petit maìtre (Little Master) of modern art; in Milan, Italy...