Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MUSIC + ELLA + JOBIM (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The equation yields a salute to rhythm. Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Brazil's Antonio Carlos Jobim sing the standards...
...conditioning and heating system, the first "convertible theater" (huge ceiling panels dropped down to block off balconies, reducing the house from 4,000 to 3,000 seats) and a stage that could slide out to cover two-thirds of the orchestra. The acoustics were superb. "I would rather sing in the Auditorium than in any other hall in the world," said Tenor John McCormack, and Soprano Nellie Melba wished that she could "fold it up and take it with me everywhere...
...merriment of a wedding banquet, I propose we sing, "Make Your Bed For Two," last year's hit song. Everybody shudders. No, not that, my young friends whisper, we'll all end up in jail. Don't you know it was written by Theodorakis? It's strictly forbidden. Later on, after we leave the banquet, the same friends roll up the car windows and softly sing the song. Warmed up, they continue with "The Rebel," the centuries-old anthem of the Cretan revolutions against the Turks. That is also forbidden, because of its suggestive language: "When will the stars break...
Director Michael Murray doesn't quite do justice to Awake and Sing, because he treats it overly like a period piece, pacing it gingerly and throwing varying degrees of strong accents into the mouths of his actors. The production abounds with significant pauses, which as a consequence lose all significance...
...four Odets plays to appear on Broadway in 1935, Awake and Sing depicts a Bronx Jewish family of the early depression, stifled by conditions they won't try to change. Jacob, the grandfather, has taken what little Marx he knows to heart, and implores his family to leave the world better off than when they found it. But it takes Jacob's death--an apparent suicide--to convince his two grandchildren, Hennie and Ralph, to free themselves...