Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
From the 1954 film version of New Faces of 1952, Alice Ghostley performs Sheldon Harnick’s “Boston Beguine,” which she also performed in the original Broadway production:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
John Douglas Thompson, the illustrious star of Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, which is currently running off Broadway at New York’s Westside Theatre, is the subject of a new thirty-shot Playbill photo essay in which he is seen preparing to give a performance. If you’ve never been backstage at a New York show—or even if you have—I think you might find it interesting to be a fly on the wall as John gets ready to go in front of an audience and deliver what one drama critic called “a tour de megaforce.”
To look at it, go here.
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts