Irving turned 84 last November, and he could tell you a thing or two about the history of American musical theatre, from Vivien Leigh's practical jokes with a DYMO labeler behind the scenes of the 1963 musical
Tovarich, to what it was like to be part of the original 1943 cast of Oklahoma!
"I had a lot of fun in the West End in
Tovarich, a French farce with Robert Powell, and I was in Rope in Chichester with Tony Head who would later be in Buffy, of course."
O cuando Mao Tse Tung definia el "gran salto" adelante como la conversion de la agricultura en comunas autosuficientes y el establecimiento de pequenos hornos de fundicion caseros-industriales en todos los pueblos, o cuando Kruchchev, ya en una forma banal-caricaturesca, proclamaba en los anos cincuenta que la Union Sovietica estaba ya a punto de entrar en el comunismo que se caracterizaria por un mejor nivel de consuncion del "
tovarich" ruso, frente a su competidor estadounidenses.
She also danced in My Fair Lady (1956) and Camelot (1960), both choreographed by Hanya Holm (with whom she studied modern dance), and in
Tovarich (1963), choreographed by Herbert Ross.
He met with dissenting socialist intellectuals in Poland in a "time of growing ferment against the repressive Soviet-style government." (241) Mills' visit to Poland and Yugoslavia "deepened" his own socialism and "hardened" his attitude "towards the triviality and formalism of much 'social science' in the US." (241) Amidst growing tensions between the US and the Soviet Union, he began to write letters to an imaginary friend (
Tovarich) in the Soviet Union.
The novel's title and the epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter are from poems by Ruben Dario, and the presentation in Leon of Jacques Deval's play
Tovarich serves to distract Somoza and his guards from the assassination plot.
If Mills hoped to belong anywhere, he remarked, it was to "the heritage that mankind has produced in its best moments." His extensive writings to an imaginary Russian friend,
Tovarich, suggest how alone he believed he was in this aspiration.
For many years Eva was a member of the
Tovarich Troupe who performed a balancing act.
Sherwood cast her as the young lead in the comedy "
Tovarich" on Broadway in 1936, and she then was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox.