Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the minute Shirley Mann began to sing "I'm Checking Home Now" till the ensemble's final triumphant warning that "The Cradle Will Rock," Marc Blitzstein's music drama had a sympathetic Sanders Theatre audience. Saturday night. If the test of a good play is its grip on the listeners, then "The Cradle" was a success...
...always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock" was an impressive example of modern folk opera. The special performance this week deserves to be as weld-received...
...first time is its history producing a play on its own power, the Student Union tomorrow night will present Mare Bilitzstein's musical drama "The Cradle Will Rock" in Banders Theatre at 8:30 o'clock...
...Cradle Will Rock," a ten-scene satire dealing bitterly with modern industrial strife, was first produced late in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman for the Mercury Theatre in New York. When the Federal Theatre withdrew its sponsorship from the production on the opening night, Welles, Houseman, and the whole cast, followed by an angry crowd of first-nighters, trooped across Manhattan to the Venice Theatre...
...Student Union will present Marc Blitzstein's play, "The Cradle Will Rock," on Saturday evening at Sanders Theatre...