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...acting honors go to Miss Page for her portrayal of the divorcee and the spinster (which Margaret Leighton attempted so inadequately in the pre-Broadway tryout here two years ago). For some reason I had never seen her act before, and it is a pleasure to report that all the acclaim and awards she has received are well deserved indeed...
...Moon for the Misbegotten was Eugene O'Neill's last play. Finished in 1943, it had a turbulent pre-Broadway road tour in 1947 and closed out of town. Whatever production difficulties it encountered, A Moon has internal troubles that go much deeper. In the current production, three accomplished actors cannot save, or even for long sustain, the play. Nor is the general effect one of crude mass: it is much more one of sheer dead weight. O'Neill's greatest fault-using too many and too flaccid words-flattens out a story that...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). A pre-Broadway preview of The Ballad of Baby Doe, an American folk opera by Douglas Moore (TIME, July...
...will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost: $23,000) pays its way, its producers plan to send at least two or three plays on pre-Broadway tours each year...
Last week, at Manhattan's busy City Center, Regina came back with a bang and a burst of bravos-and as opera unashamed. Composer Blitzstein had trimmed down the spoken dialogue in his libretto, tightened up the orchestration, and included three musical episodes which were dropped in the pre-Broadway tryouts of the old production. The result still showed a slight tendency to be musically episodic, but the opera more than made up for this with its sharp scoring for a set of characters more real and gutty than most modern opera can lay claim...