Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Queen Mary's 80th birthday in 1947, the BBC commissioned Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, by royal request, to do a radio drama called Three Blind Mice. Author Christie later expanded it into a stage play, The Mousetrap, thought it might run a couple of months at best. The day after The Mousetrap gave its 2,239th performance at London's Ambassadors' Theater, thus passing the musical Chu Chin Chow as the longest-running play in British stage history.* Producer Peter Saunders gave a hotel-jamming party for a few (1,000) friends, who cheered as Author...
...Stage Struck. Talented local girl finally makes good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
Music director Martin Faigel has succeeded in training the chorus to the same standard of excellence set by the rest of the cast and stage director Herbert Parsons moves the cast ably about on the minute Agassiz stage. It is perhaps the tiny stage that accounts for the undistinguished nature of Nancy Ryan's choreography. Lucy Garretson's two piano reduction of the score is all that might be asked and it is adequately played by Miss Garretson and Larry Lavan...
...designer John Beck has managed to conquer the problems of the tiny stage satisfactorily, giving an illusion of depth and width. Peter Salisbury provides his usual excellent lighting job with suitably magical effects at the first act incantation scene...
...final climax came late in the afternoon when the first and third doubles were split, thus setting the stage for the decisive match. At number one, the Hicks brothers overcame the Sophomore duo of Gallwey and Vinton, 6-3, 6-4, while at number three Sears and Krogh blasted Feldman and Hostetter...