Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar
Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the
stage, which premiered on Broadway on October 10, 1947. After the
immense successes of the first two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals,
Oklahoma! and Carousel, the pair sought a subject for their next play.
Hammerstein had long contemplated a serious work that would deal with
the problems of an ordinary man in the fast-moving modern world. Rodgers
and he sought to create a work that would be as innovative as their
first two stage musicals. To that end, they created a play with a large
cast, including a Greek chorus. After a disastrous tryout in New Haven,
Connecticut, the musical opened on Broadway to a large advance sale of
tickets and very mixed reviews. The Broadway run, directed by Agnes de
Mille, ended after nine months; it had no West End production and has
rarely been revived.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_(musical)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1780:
One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the
Caribbean Sea, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several
days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780>
1911:
The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking
the beginning of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment
of the Republic of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuchang_Uprising>
1933:
In the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of
commercial aviation, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in mid-air
near Chesterton, Indiana, US, killing all seven people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion>
1964:
The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics took place in
Tokyo, the first to be telecast live internationally via satellite.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics>
1982:
Maximilian Kolbe (pictured), who had volunteered to die in
place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in
Poland, was canonized by the Catholic Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
beefcake:
1. (informal) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
2. (informal) A muscular, well-built, desirable man.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beefcake>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of
leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of
non-essentials.
--Lin Yutang
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang>
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