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Show Telephone Hour To Feature Variety of Music An outstanding array of popular pop-ular and classical music stars will be presented on the Bell Telephone Hour when it begins its fifth 'season on television over NBC Channel 2 on Monday, September 24 at 8:00 p.m. In the 1962-63 season, the Telephone Hour will present eight hour-long color specials on a monthly basis in pre-emptive time periods. The case in the opening production pro-duction will consist of screen, stage and television star Janet Blair, opera singers Roberta Peters and Robert Merrill, ballet bal-let dancers Rudolph Nureyev and Lupe Serrano, concert pianist pian-ist Byron Janis and the instrumental-vocal quartet the Brothers Broth-ers Four. The Telephone Hour con- sidered by many critics and viewers to be the best musical on television reflects the artistic ar-tistic abilities and work of many people. Technicians, set and costume designers, make-up artists, wardrobe ward-robe attendants, painters, carpenters, car-penters, cameramen, writers, producers, musicians, performers perform-ers . . . almost 300 persons of varying talents and crafts direct air efforts toward making h Telephone Hour a hit. Even before a show is ready for staging and rehearsing, there are dozens of man hours of labored la-bored preparation. Several months ahead of time, the content of a show is worked out at Henry Jaffe Enterprises, producers of the Telephone Hour. The program format is submitted sub-mitted to AT&T for approval. Consideration is given not only to the artists who are to appear on the various segments of the show, but to how these performers perform-ers and segments fit in with the Telehone Hours immediately preceding and following it. Once the program format is approved, negotiations for the .rnearance of the various peril per-il Thiers is completed and contracts con-tracts are signed. The musical arrangement is decided and work begins on the sets and costumes. About 10 days before the tele-cast, tele-cast, performers individually begin rehearsing for the program. pro-gram. Rehearsing of specific roles continues until the scheduled sched-uled "blocking" (timing) rehearsals re-hearsals just a few days before be-fore the telecast. |