Leonard Lyons On Loewe And Broadway Musings
Leonard Lyons writes notes from a long journey touching Frederic Loewe’s planned Carnegie Hall concert with Sol Hurak, hotel rivalries in Copenhagen and Stockholm, encounters at the Museum of Israel, a Dead Sea sign of lowest point, Billy Rose sculpture concerns, Elsinore Castle listings of Hamlet stars, Norman Is That You Broadway run, Paris success, House of Blue Leaves rights, and King Umberto in exile in Portugal.
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Hamlet
Norman
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Paris
David Merrick
Pittsburgh Producer Nassif Skims Cedar Rapids and Beyond
Associate Professor Joseph Nassif of Point Park College Pittsburgh visits Cedar Rapids to see family and to discuss plans. He will travel to Paris in late July for a six week conference delivering a keynote at the Paris American Academy and leading theater symposia. He is guest directing at the University of Evansville for Noel Coward's Present Laughter opening July 9. Nassif earned degrees from Grinnell Yale and is to receive a PhD from Denver this fall.
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Simon Ward Cast as Young Winston in Churchill Biopic
Carl Foreman and Richard Attenborough selected Simon Ward from auditions after screening hundreds of British actors. Ward, a versatile West End talent who began with the National Youth Theatre at 18, is praised for his Churchill likeness at age 19 and lands the role in the Young Winston project.
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