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Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Met Soprano Mary Curtis-Verna in The Great Waltz...
Singers: Sopranos Lucine Amara, Mary Curtis-Verna, Gloria Davy, Leontyne Price, Eleanor Steber; Mezzo-Sopranos Nan Merriman and Regina Resnik; Contralto Jean Madeira; Tenors David Lloyd, Jan Peerce. Richard Tucker; Baritones George London, Robert McFerrin and William Warneld...
MARY CURTIS-VERNA, 30, a tall (5 ft. 7 in.), Massachusetts-born dramatic soprano, has become the Metropolitan's most highly publicized relief aria-pitcher in the year since she joined the company. Three times this season she substituted for ailing divas in starring roles (once, on three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only...
...said that you also never build anything? Are things going to be built in the Alps but not around the place on Monte Vergine where the Virgin Mary appeared in 1597 to save Visciano from pestilence and hunger? Saint Francis, when he was building his monastery at La Verna, promised: 'He who gives me a stone will have reward for one stone-he who gives me two stones will have two stones' reward-he who gives me three will have fullness of blessing.' If every one of you carries a stone up to the hilltop...
...What Bride's viewers see is a mishmash of kittenish domestic humor. Spring Byington lives with her daughter and son-in-law (Frances Rafferty and Dean Miller); a next-door neighbor, Pete Porter, adds a welcome touch of acid as a wisecracking foe of mothers-in-law, and Verna Felton plays a low-comedy crony of Spring's. Verna recently had a bit part in the movie Picnic, and when the film was on location in Kansas she got more attention from the natives than all the rest of the company. Director Joshua Logan was perplexed...