Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controlled, and the stage business is meticulous in detail and execution. Novick is especially successful in out-doing Gilbert's spoof of English attitudes, notably those toward the Orient which did so much to produce the Far-Eastern mess of the 19th Century. The chorus, which can really sing this time, is at all times a source of delight, whether they be joining in the sentimental ballad, or kicking around an imaginary chopped-off head...
...performances first; so, in "deference to General de Gaulle," the critics should hold up their first-night reviews until he could get to the theater on the second night. The grand opening of the opera fortnight ago, where Maria Callas had once complained, "I am not going to sing in those dusty decors," was the most glittering in history. Outside, the Republican Guard stood with sabers drawn while onstage Carmen was performed with the aid of 40 horses and a monkey. "In one swoop," said Malraux last week, "the opera recaptured its place among the great lyric theaters...
...script, written by Karl Tunberg, and touched up by S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry, is well ordered, and its lines sometimes sing with good rhetoric and quiet poetry. The actors, for the most part, play in the grand manner, but with controlled firmness. Actor Boyd carries off the prize with a virile portrayal of Messala, and Hugh...
...Austria at the time of the Anschluss for its story, to the famous Trapp Family Singers, who dramatically escaped from the Nazis' clutches. Besides Captain Georg von Trapp, there were his seven children and their governess, a young novice from a neighboring abbey, who taught the children to sing, won their love, and married their father. As musicomedy, The Sound of Music combines the cloister and the kindergarten. nursery rhymes and Nazi salutes...
Eddie Fisher, when he finally appeared to sing, turned out to be neither very good nor awful. He belted out such numbers as Another Autumn, Wish You Were Here, Let Me Entertain You in a loud, clear voice, without much style or emotional variety. But he was an undisputed smash with the customers who packed the Empire Room night after night, long after Liz, the Prince and the stubborn Brooklyn dentist had departed. Having lost his TV show in the furor over his divorce from Debbie Reynolds, and suffering chronically from poor record sales, Eddie Fisher seemed to be making...