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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...
...musical play" in which story moves on equal terms with song, while dancing is shunned and spectacle virtually banished. Story means, for the most part, a romance between "Knucklehead Nellie" (Mary Martin), an appealing Navy nurse from Little Rock, Ark., and a middle-aged Pacific-island French planter (Ezio Pinza). The nurse loves the planter but almost loses him, first to her Southern prejudices when she finds he has lived openly with a native woman and sired two children, then to the hazards of war. There is a similar but sadder subplot in which Boy Meets Native Girl and breaks...
...with nimble skill, while the Jo Mielziner sets never jam the flow. As the little knucklehead, Mary Martin gives the performance of her career. She merges a gift for comedy with a delightful personality; she sings well, and turns out ballads even better. As the planter, Metropolitan Opera Basso Pinza proves himself an excellent Broadway performer. He has, beyond that, the kind of voice that show business is lucky enough to acquire once or twice in a generation. The whole supporting cast is good, particularly Myron McCormick as an unregimented Seabee...