Word: pinza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bloody Mary is the girl I love," sang the sailors, and for 1,694 Broadway performances, audiences loved her too, as the scheming, betelnut-chewing Tonkinese mama who belted out Happy Talk, and sang Bali Ha'i with such feeling that she nearly stole the show from Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin...
...years on radio and TV, the Bell Telephone Hour played duenna to the world's best music and most of its best contemporary performers, from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi. The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull. Producer Henry Jaffe recalls: "We'd put a performer on a bleak stage in front of a dirty curtain and say, 'Perform!' " Perform they did, often superbly, but Bell began to feel its image had become...
...tenors, ought to eschew sex before performing, but that it does a world of good for the girls' voices. One Metropolitan Opera tenor is said to abstain for ten days prior to and ten days after each performance; his distraught wife says he sings every ten days. Ezio Pinza, on the other hand, held the belief that "the night before, it's terrible, but just before going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love regularly, I get bad-tempered, my voice gets...
...spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak and two months building the supporting cast and two months wrangling with the Shuberts about a theater and three months working up an advertising campaign and two months in rehearsal and two months on the road and-and then at last the great day came. After three...
...expect to keep doing Broadway musicals forever, though. There's a chance I may do a movie. What I'd really like to do is get sufficient preparation to do concert singing and maybe opera." So Gil may perhaps wind up having followed the reverse path of stars like Pinza and Traubel...