Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Haydn wanted to hear his latest work, he needed only to stroll over to the Esterháazy court orchestra, put the score on the stands and wait a while. Before long, the musicians would give the piece a vigorous tryout. What is more, as a servant of an 18th century prince, Haydn was expected to provide new compositions with regularity. Modern composers no longer have to wear livery, or write on demand, but neither are they assured of having their music performed. Soloists are often indifferent or even hostile; orchestras and opera companies rely mostly on time-tested...
Woman of the Year, now in a four-week pre-Broadway tryout, proves doubly disappointing because it not only fails to capitalize on the allure and talent of Bacall but because it does not exploit successfully an old story that might well have been updated. Based on the 1942 MGM movie of the same name, which starred Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, the musical version keeps the story line almost intact, with the perhaps inevitable change of the lead form a newspaper woman to a television anchor. She, Tess Harding, first insults, then falls in love with a cartoonist...
...seemed like the ultimate success," Reagan recalls thinking, and the attitude was commonplace. Boys worked as store clerks for ten hours a day to earn a dollar. Before Reagan got the tryout at WOC that took him by bus weekly from Illinois to Iowa through the football season, he considered seeking a $12.50 a week post at Montgomery Ward, where his father Jack sold shoes. In those days, $12.50 was a good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee...
Seeing Ingari practicing some of the maneuvers he learned in one lone year of high school competition diving, coach John Walker invited him to tryout for the third slot behind Mule and Karl Illig. After making, the squad, Ingari then managed to learn a full list of collegiate dives in just five weeks--even the twists, which he'd never tried before...
Reflecting on the tryout, Oberg says, "After six years, I'm ready to give the game a shot at a higher level," adding, "I'd always wonder if I didn...