Word: pinza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, stadium concertgoers were more used to hearing Minnie make such announcements as ". . . and tomorrow night we will present one of the greatest names in music-Ezio Pinza Bass." On that occasion she made the show complete by putting on her spectacles, reading her notes and screaming: "Oh, no, that can't be right, that's the name of a fish. I guess it's Ezio Pinza, bass." The crowd also guffawed the night she told the echo of her own voice to shut up. Says Minnie: "When I hear them laugh, I know they expect...
...soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
Martita (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Hunt and Lee J. (Death of a Salesman) Cobb rated bravos as the best actors of the Broadway season from the toughest audience of all: Manhattan's drama critics. Basso Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza nudged aside Alfred (Kiss Me, Kate) Drake as the best musicomedy male. Mary (South Pacific) Martin danced off with all the votes for top musicomedienne...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guests: Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
...best foreign play: The Madwoman of Chaillot, an enchanting fantasy about a wacky countess who, Pied Piper-like, rids Paris of its human rats (TIME, Jan. 10). The best musical: South Pacific, a sort of child of Madame Butterfly by Mister Roberts, brilliantly produced with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza (TIME, April...