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...thirty-two straight Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
...that the participants derive; the quality of the result and the size of the audience are properly secondary considerations. Still, this has not been a year of quantity alone. Happily, some of the productions have equaled the high level of excellence that characterized the efforts of the Veterans Theatre Workshop here in the late...
...boys from the Brigadoon pit to get together in off-hours to try their hand at a little Debussy, Mozart and Beethoven. When Allers took over the baton in Fair Lady, some of the singers asked him to continue his out-of-hours musicmaking. Result: the Allers opera workshop, which in short order sang, without sets or costumes, Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Verdi's Masked Ball and, as a Christmas special, Handel's Messiah. (Audiences usually consist of a dozen or so friends and relatives...
...Fair Lady workshop singers (some have joined from other musical casts) have had no operatic training, but some hope for careers in opera. The Musetta in last week's Bohème rehearsal, Lola Fisher, was Julie Andrews' able understudy as Eliza Doolittle, and Mimi was Evelyn Aring, who sings on the Firestone Hour...
Good & "Loverly." Because there are so many eager applicants for the workshop, roles are often double-cast; e.g., at last week's rehearsal there were two Rodolfos (Lindsey Bergen alongside Tenor Surface), and all of the singers double as members of the chorus. In all, nine singers were gathered in the rehearsal studio (each one had brought a score and paid 50? for the studio's weekly rental). "Straight through, and this time it will be very good," said Conductor Allers, and then he pounded out the famous score on a battered concert grand. Sight-reading their roles...