Word: sportin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leningrad station the Porgy company filed through a welcoming committee of "giant men and shabby ladies" like a flock of gaudy parakeets uncaged into a grey wilderness. Earl Bruce Jackson (who plays Sportin' Life in the opera) had holes cut in his gloves so that all could see his rings, and he waved regally. He also kept brooding about the brown tails, with champagne satin lapels, that he hoped to wear for his planned Moscow wedding (to a cast member) and thus get into Leonard Lyons' column...
Sunny Side. Wherever the Americans went, Russians gathered to stare, creating traffic jams. Traffic was blocked for a mile when 1,000 Russians surrounded Earl Jackson (who alternates as Sportin' Life) and Helen Thigpen (Serena), out for a stroll, with Jackson wearing cowboy boots, an Argentine nutria coat and hat, and custom-made pigskin gloves equipped with four holes through which his six emerald-and-diamond rings glittered...
...selves on their second night in town when they staged Russia's first jam session at the staid Astoria Hotel. As one member of the cast put it: "The band was doing up Cherokee. It was strictly from the cob. Man, it was square! Lorenzo Fuller [an alternate Sportin' Life] decided to go scalp the piano. Ned Wright [Robbins] felt the spirit striving and took everybody to the sunny side of the street . . . One of the Russian cats got the spirit and did a buck and wing routine that flipped everybody's wig. Everything was copacabana, just...
...Most of those gangsters were the nicest, quietest people.") In the Depression years, the blues were too real for comfort : Lizzie thought she was through. She worked as a housemaid, later as a barmaid. Even in World War II, she could not find a singing job. "Showfolks, gamblers and sportin' people have no loyalty...
...current uncut production is the most impressive one so far. LeVern Hutcherson and Leontyne Price bring a great deal to the title roles, and Cab Calloway is a highly effective Sportin' Life...