Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love a Fight." That night the President took his case to the nation over the radio. Tickets to Convention Hall had been carefully allotted to 14,500 of the faithful; actually 18,000 people jammed in; thousands more stood outside. When the President arrived on the stage at 9:12 p.m., the audience went mad as only good Democrats can, whistling, shouting, stamping...
Slonimsky recently completed the first comprehensive survey of contemporary composers of South America, an area little studied by musical scholars. He found that music had reached a high stage of development there, and that a great majority of composers write program music, taking their material from the histories and backgrounds and folk music of their native lands...
Last week, complete with ten singers, a conductor and assistant, two rehearsal pianists, a stage director and a driver, Impresario Wagner's operatic bus fumed out of Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed...
...musical, Anything Goes, she made the songwriter play and sing the score before her and her parents. They vetoed two of the numbers. Since that time, like all Porter enthusiasts, she has been willing to accept his music, sound unheard. He calls her the "most efficient" songstress on the stage. Her efficiency includes her ability, as an ex-stenographer, to take down suggested script or lyrics in shorthand and type them for her own private rehearsal...
...only in its setting but also in the unfolding of its home-spun story. "Our Town" reveals itself as if written to order for the Repertory. Director Pettet is the perfect Stage Manager. He doesn't have to act; his part is the one he lives and works in his capacity as leader of the company. With corncob pipe in mouth and a copy of the play in hand, he takes the audience by the arm and points out the simple charms of Grover's Corners. He introduce the Gibb's and the Webbs; Joe Crowell, the paper boy; Howie...