Word: shubertism
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...SHUBERT. Don Juan in Hell...
...been willing to die for Ingrid Bergman." At Yale, Porterfield composed, arranged and conducted the music for his own jazz groups. His fickle affections, meanwhile, shifted from Bergman to the Broadway stars who appeared in New Haven tryouts. He and his roommate, Dick Cavett, frequently got backstage at the Shubert Theater to stargaze at close range. "In those days," says Porterfield, "I regarded performers with a mixture of fascination and awe. Since then I've become more fascinated and less awed...
...billed as "the youngest prima donna in captivity," she joined the touring J.J. Shubert operetta company, starring in Gilbert and Sullivan the first season and in The Merry Widow and The Countess Maritza the second. More dubious engagements followed on the borscht circuit and at a private after-hours club in Manhattan, where she wheeled a piano around the room and performed light classics for tips that sometimes totaled $150 a night. In response to Papa's pleas that she at least devote herself to grand opera, she signed with the Charles Wagner Opera Co., a provincial touring unit. Opera...
There are moments in Ron Field's revival of the show, now in a pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert, when the fears and melancholy surface--in distinct contrast to the prevailing air of foolishness and mock sophistication. Certainly most disturbing is the weirdly undefined dream sequence in the second act when Gabey imagines Miss Turnstyles as an unobtainable socialite, surrounded by Ronald Searle-like caricatures of the rich. But for the most part this revival's spirits are too blithe. It strives for a simple-minded innocence when real recognition of the forties' blend of hell-bent pleasure...
...Leibman is a manic delight in the key role, twitching mutely when in despair, brassily egomaniacal in victory, and forever sniffing the theatrical climate like a raunchy Shubert Alley cat. The rest of the cast play lesser roles with no less finesse, and pace-setting Director Harold Stone leaves no comic corner unturned...