Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This exchange, accompanied by a long-winded, brassy orchestra with lots of percussion and no fiddles, was sung last week on a Berlin stage. Abstract Opera No. 1 was the work of two leading German composer-librettists, Boris Blacher. (Romeo and Juliet, Prussian Fairytale) and Werner Egk (Columbus, Irish Legend). The work was produced with deadpan literalness and conducted by Hermann Scherchen, one of Europe's famed conductors. Nobody in the audience shouted "Shoot the composer!" or "Hang the conductor!" In fact, to Composer Blacher's amazement, a capacity crowd received the work cordially, demanding many curtain calls...
West Side Story (book by Arthur Laurents; music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim) gave the new season what should prove a very popular retelling of Romeo and Juliet-in terms of youthful gang warfare. It also suggests that the salvation of the serious Broadway musical may lie in neither text nor music-which, trying to coalesce, all too often merely collide-but in dancing...
Married. Margaret Leighton, 35, veteran British star of stage (the Old Vic, Separate Tables) and screen (The Constant Husband); and Laurence Harvey, 28, Lithuanian-born, dark-haired British cinemactor (I Am a Camera, Romeo and Juliet), who was named as corespondent in her 1955 divorce from Publisher Max Reinhardt; she for the second time, he for the first; in Gibraltar...
...Romeo and Juliet...
...face of this excellence, Erich Segal's Romeo suffered slightly. He delivered his lines effectively, but too often he exchanged light-of-love look for a wide-eyed stare...