Word: regina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway run of 56 performances...
Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had been originally planned for nothing but the Commencement dinner...
Blitzstein is also a clever musical impersonator: at home in a great variety of styles, he turns out spirited polkas, convincing Negro jazz, grandiose arias, lilting quartets. Moreover, in Regina the music constitutes the actual train ride, not just (as in musicomedy) the stops along the line...
...whole production-including Horace Armistead's sets and Robert Lewis' staging-has been done with style. Though an effective Regina in her first serious Broadway role, Jane Pickens, with perhaps the least vocal right, leaves the most determinedly operatic impression. More memorable are Brenda Lewis' overall performance as the pathetic Birdie and Newcomer Russell Nype's comic charm as the loathsome...
...Producer. In her 18 years as one of the two regulars among Broadway's few women producers,* Regina's Cheryl Crawford has managed to combine hardheaded business instinct and high-minded theatrical taste. The results were more praiseworthy than profitable until she found a knack for offbeat musicals: 1942's revival of Porgy and Bess, 1943's One Touch of Venus, 1947's Brigadoon-her biggest hit, after some of the town's canniest producers had turned it down...