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...were Lisa Kirk, June Allyson and half a dozen others. Rarely had so many of Broadway's grandes dames hankered after one leading role-and a replacement part at that. Yet when Angela Lansbury stepped down from her brassy, jazzy, sassy lead in Mame after 775 performances, the plum was passed to a long shot-Janis Paiqe, 44, one of the leggiest of World War II pinups and famed as Babe Williams in 1954's The Pajama Game. "This is the show I've been waiting for all my life!" said Janis, and the first performance proved...
...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX and IT'S CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurd love waltz between a boy and girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX and IT'S CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurdist love waltz between a boy and a girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as out of sheer desperate boredom, two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...midnight the Nutcracker suddenly springs alive and the two sail through a corps de ballet of whirring snowflake, Sugar Plum Fairies, Candy Flowers and other whimsies of the Nutcracker Suite...
...lighter moments in a tight pirouette. This was especially true in the dance of the Dew Drop Fairy, one of the two major roles in the ballet. Nevertheless, June Perry by far outshone the rest of the Boston Company in that role and stood up well against the sugar plum fairy of guest performer Violet Verdy, one of this country's best ballerinas. These two, along with the City Ballet's Earle Sieveling as the Cavalier, more than reminded one of how exhilarating really fine ballet...