Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a loudspeaker outside the Brass Rail Theater Bar, a smoky, crowded joint on Chicago's brassy Randolph Street, came hard, driving music. One old connoisseur who heard it stopped in his tracks and said, "My God. it's Bix." But the sign in the window said Jimmy MacPartland. It was Jimmy playing the golden cornet that Jazz Immortal Bix Beiderbecke had given him years...
...Russia's most famed, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. And it was the first production of it in Moscow in twelve years: it was too expensive, too big and too lavish to produce often, particularly during wartime austerity. But when the Bolshoi Theater a year ago decided to revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb...
Last week, Moscow operagoers were seeing a performance of Boris that justified its labor pains. A chorus of 180 voices rocketed Mussorgsky's somber music to the gilded ceiling of the huge red & gold Bolshoi Theater. A whole class of children from the Bolshoi ballet school, as well as a large company of nonsinging extras, filled out the stage. Standout scene: the coronation, full of massive bells, the swelling crescendos of the huge orchestra and blazing pageantry...
Tryouts for roles in the Veterans' Theater Workshop's forthcoming production of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, will take place in Sanders Theatre on Monday and Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock, the VTW announced last night...
...rates on corsages and theater tickets will serve as additional enticement for Jubilee patrons on the dance weekend All Jubilee ticket holders will be able to obtain entrance to the HDC production of "June and the Paycock" at a special reduced price...