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Boston Ballet rehearsal

Description: Dressing room of Boston Ballet. Young dancers prepare for dress rehearsal of Nutcracker. Put on costumes, makeup, place hair in buns, practice steps. Male solo, then duet on stage. Then ensemble dances and curtain closes. Dancers and others linger backstage. Principal ballerina says it is very crowded backstage because of scenery and difficult to make quick entrances and exits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/04/1979

Boston Music Hall

Description: Boston Music Hall, Theatre District.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/20/1979

Murals in Cambridge

Description: Saginaw Avenue on Cambridge Somerville line near Elm Street behind Porter Square shopping center. Mural on back of Star Market on Davenport Street. Mural on brick side of Inman Square fire station. Entrance to The Proposition improvisation theater with silhouettes mural. Mural of horse-drawn wagon. Rowboat mural in Central Square. Colorful totem-like painted bricks. Cartoonish musicians painted on brick wall. Large stylized mural of Victorian house near Orson Welles Cinema. Interview with woman at Cambridge Arts Council about placement of public murals and environmental art installations; how they match artists' proposals with community interests.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1979

Oak Square School

Description: Interview with Charlie Vasiliades about survival of Oak Square School on Nonantum Street in Brighton, being considered for closing. Last wood frame schoolhouse in Boston, serves integrated student body of 100. Small building with yellow clapboard exterior, columns, cupola. It might receive historic landmark designation. Nearby houses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/13/1979

Opera Fair

Description: Fair to raise money for Opera Company of Boston sponsored and broadcast by WCRB. Interview with young children who say they like opera. Male vocalist with piano accompaniment performs in lobby of Opera House. Sarah Caldwell talks about restoring theater with deeper stage, better acoustics, new seats for $6 million.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/19/1979