Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Backstage she was the funny bone of the company-brewing up high tea every afternoon, expertly picking every pocket in the cast, bounding into her old music-hall routines. Everyone but Harrison was amused, but in the New York premiere he, too, came to appreciate Julie. As the stage manager recalls it, during the first act when Eliza, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering fall back on the couch together after The Rain in Spain, Harrison suddenly dried up. He couldn't remember his next line, and the audience held its breath-until Julie grabbed hands and pulled them back...
Street Arab. Toward the end of her Fair Lady run, Julie and Tony Walton got married. He had become a noted stage and costume designer in London, and for a brief moment Julie considered retiring. "But," as Tony says, "work was the only thing she knew." And besides, Moss Hart, with Lerner and Frederick Loewe, authors of My Fair Lady, wanted Julie to play opposite Burton in Camelot, a stylish retelling of the Arthurian legend. Camelot lacked the magic of Fair Lady, but audiences loved it. Julie had a ball too. Recalls Burton: "One night a large, woolly...
...past three months, Metropolitan Opera audiences have seen more exploding galleons, clashing armies and airborne tenors than they did in the thousand-and-one nights at the old house. Last week the Met staged its new production of Lohengrin, and it, too, was a shocker-not for spectacle, but for lack of it. The stage was virtually stripped clean of scenery. Choristers stood in rigid rows like drill teams awaiting inspection; principal singers stirred hardly at all, and when they did, it was with the slow, deliberate movements of dream figures. The audience loved it, loudly bravoed Conductor Karl...
...doubtful that a man can be known from his letters alone, but in the case of James Joyce, the letters become stage lights that illuminate the variegated disguises, postures, attitudes and importunities that he showed to the world...
Married. Michael Dunn, 32, actor, whose 3-ft. 10-in. size has stretched into a bright career on stage (The Ballad of the Sad Café), screen (Ship of Fools) and TV (CBS's Wild Wild West series); and Joy Talbot, 28, 5-ft. 4-in. Manhattan model; in Manhattan...