A major creative force on both the Broadway and ballet stages beginning in 1944, director/choreographer Jerome Robbins (born Rabinowitz, 1918-1998) extended the possibilities of musical theater and br...
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American lyricist (b. May 3, 1919, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
—d. Nov. 23, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), collaborated with
Adolph
Green
, and the two made up the musical-comedy team that wrote scripts—...
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Canadian-born ballet dancer (b. April 25, 1923,
Toronto
, Ont.—d. Aug. 9, 2006,
Winston-Salem, N.C.
), had technical and dramatic skills that shone in the many and various roles she created...
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One of the most touching tales in Amanda Vaill’s Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins is about a gift that Robbins gave to Ethel Merman when she was starring in Gypsy. A resoundingly unrefle...
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One of the most touching tales in Amanda Vaill’s Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins is about a gift that Robbins gave to Ethel Merman when she was starring in Gypsy. A resoundingly unrefle...
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2007. There are 96 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1957, the musical play "West Side Story," a retell...
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Alessandra Ferri and Kyra Nichols, beloved ballerinas with more than a half-century of performing between them, are as different in style and temperament as they come.But over the weekend, they wer...
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Last week in this space I was complaining about the inferior choreographers we've been exposed to lately. Then, as if in answer to a prayer, Mark Morris turned up at B.A.M., giving me grounds for n...
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Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men," giving them the inside track for the same honor at the Academy Awards — ass...
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Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men," giving them the inside track for the same honor at the Academy Awards — ass...
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Jerome Robbins
Comden, Betty
