Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song bag than just the minstrel ballads with Uncle Tomish lyrics by which he is usually remembered. There is, for example, the sprightly If You've Only Got a Moustache, which could have been written by Schubert. Also Wilt Thou Be Gone, Love?, an Italianate duet for Romeo and Juliet. And many more, including, of course, Beautiful Dreamer and Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair. Adding to the joy of the album are the authentic accompaniments, played on an 1850 Chickering piano, melodeon, keyed bugle and other instruments at Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...which he started in 1953 in a Presbyterian church on East Sixth Street as the Shakespeare Workshop. "It was hard enough to imagine we could get any audience for Shakespeare down there at all," says Bernard Gersten, Papp's second in command, "let alone charge money for it. Romeo and Juliet? Theater? What's that?" he asks with an illustrative shrug of the shoulders. "At least we could get people in with the word 'free.' " The original budget: $750. What was at first necessity, a free show, became an idee fixe to Papp, and he became...
...company's current six-week stand at Lincoln Center, however, has a special point of interest. It is its first under the directorship of Kenneth MacMillan, 42, an Ashton disciple who is best known for his full-length Romeo and Juliet, and who succeeded his mentor in the fall of 1970. For the occasion, the company is sporting two new MacMillan pieces. Alas, together they lay two of the biggest eggs of the New York ballet season...
...disappointment of these new ballets is somewhat redeemed by such familiar delights as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Romeo and Juliet. But generally the work of the company betrays a certain unease. It may be that MacMillan and his dancers have not yet struck the right working relationship. If so, MacMillan did not improve matters by staying in London, leaving esprit, not to mention foot work, to others...
...there was also a race. And even if its 60 entries included only two factory teams, the cherry red cars of Ferrari and the blood red cars of Alfa-Romeo, they provided more than a diverting show. Bouncing around the bumpy track's 5.2-mile course, with its twelve S's, hair-raising hairpin and assorted other curves, only 27 of the entries managed to finish. Mechanical mishaps took the biggest toll. Peter Revson, driving one of the four Alfa-Romeo Spyders, was eliminated for flourishing a finger obscenely at a track official who had chastised...