On this day in 1952 Bette Davis returned to Broadway in Two’s Company, Charles Sherman’s musical revue with music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Ogden Nash and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It ran 90 performances at the Alvin Theatre.
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On this day in 1945 baritone Robert Merrill made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Germont.
Dan Soda (Windy City Operaman) is a Chicago native whose first visit to opera was at age 17 and Massenet’s Werther with Troyanos and Kraus. Nothing was ever the same. Opera and concert performances, recordings and video are an obsession. He prepares Parterre Box’s daily birthday and anniversary tributes. He also enjoys concerts, live theater and movies.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
