Friday, October 18, 2013

Porteriana: "SEVEN LIVELY ARTS"

Speranza

"Ev'ry time we say goodbye"

Billy Rose followed his greatest theatre success by purcashing the Ziegfeld Theatre.

He determined to open it with a spectacularly Roseian spectacle, with Lillie and Lahr and Benny Goodman, Salvador Dali's scenic conceptions, and a Broadway ballet composed by no less than Igor Stravinsky.

All to no avail, and no thanks to Porter's pedestrian score.

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