Word: pleasers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City Opera seemed to have found its best audience-pleaser yet. Kirstein, with some solid evidence for his theory, is now talking about reviving Vincenzo Bellini's pyrotechnical 19th century operas I Puritani and La Sonnambula...
...there are other times in the program when White is a blues singer--a pretty good one, but just another blues singer. He is clever, warmly humorous, a crowd pleaser. He sings One Meatball and the audience laughs; he sings Jericho and the audience claps in rhythm and joins in the chorus. He is an entertainer with...
...Carmen and naturalism gave the rejuvenated old Met another strong new crowd-pleaser...
...strip's gentle satire on mortal failings was never a big crowd-pleaser; at its peak in 1946, only 76 papers carried
...lives until they went to the neighborhood movie. His records (Victor) have earned him well over $100,000 a year. Last week he wound up his latest U.S. tour with a concert in Miami which won the shouting approval of 2,300 fans. It was a typical Iturbi crowd-pleaser. After his first number, Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata ("a mechanical interpretation with some sweetness interpolated," said the Miami Herald), he noticed latecomers struggling for their seats. He promptly did a pantomime of launching into his second number, running his hands up & down the keyboard without touching the keys...