Word: premi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which no amount of hard-won skill can totally compensate. As for MacLaine, she comes to see that she cannot live through her daughter the life she did not choose. Both get a chance to work out their previously unspoken grudges, on the night of the girl's première, in a knockdown fight on the theater steps...
...Betty White Show (première: Sept. 12, 9 p.m. E.D.T. on CBS). One of the major inspirations of the Mary Tyler Moore Show was to cast sweet, motherly Betty White against type-as a two-faced bitch. In this promising new sitcom from MTM Enterprises, White is as bitchy as ever and on-screen almost all the time. It might be too much of a good thing...
...dance program began with performances by Heinz Poll's Ohio Ballet and the Eliot Feld Ballet of New York City. At festival's end a daylong celebration of the music of Scriabin will be topped off by premières of new balletic works by George Balanchine, Sir Frederick Ashton and Glen Tetley...
Molly is quite unlike any play that Britain's Simon Gray has written. Seeing the work in a late dress-rehearsal phase of its world première at Spoleto, one cannot properly evaluate the drama's full potential, but cannot fail to mark a signal change of direction...
...produced, however, is a 91-minute, one-act work in which Henderson simply fails to come alive as an operatic hero. Possibly he is too rambling, too widely split a character to be captured in the broad terms that opera thrives on. Certainly Kirchner, who conducted the première, has come up with nothing musical to match the rich flow of language in Bellow's novel. Instead, he has given Henderson a kind of Sprechgesang (the style of half song, half speech developed by Arnold Schoenberg) in which to rant and rave...