Word: premi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...
...producers weren't sure just how much ballet G.I.s could stand, so they corned it up. The show traced the growth of a dancer from an eight-year-old student "rat" to the première danseuse in Giselle. Late in the evening, for the first time in its history, the Opera lifted all its backdrops, baring the entire 185-ft.-deep stage. Even members of the orchestra stood up in the pit to watch. Then stagehands in new blue uniforms (they refused to appear before the Americans in faded ones) changed sets, set up scenery for Les Deux...
...Sheffield last week, the Hallé Orchestra, John Barbirolli conducting, played the world première of "A Threnody for a Soldier Killed in Action, by Anthony Collins, from Fragments Left by Michael Heming." Lieut. Heming would have been 24 that...
...actors left the theater. Half an hour later the stage was in flames. The scenery was ruined. The premiere was postponed. The cast was arrested. Later all except Ording were released, and rehearsals resumed with Lars Nordrum in Ording's part. Two days before the new première, Nordrum vanished...
...première was postponed again. Ording was brought from prison to the Chief of Police, ordered back into the show in curt quislingo: "Don't try any tricks this time or it will cost you your life. . . . The show will open...