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Festival (initially titled Festival '61) is a Canadian entertainment anthology television series which aired on CBC Television from 1960 to 1969.
Festival | |
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Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 9 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Robert Allen[1] |
Original release | |
Network | CBC Television |
Release | 10 October 1960 – 26 March 1969 |
CBC Television aired dramatic and musical anthology series such as Scope and Folio during the 1950s. Robert Allen, a producer on Folio, became supervising producer of the new Festival series.[2][3]
The production cost of a typical Festival drama show was approximately $45,000 in 1961, among the highest production costs of CBC programming at the time.[4] Productions such as a ballet performance or a Gilbert and Sullivan play could cost $60,000 for CBC.[4]
This series was broadcast as follows:
Day | Time | Season run | Duration (minutes) | |
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Monday | 9:30 p.m. | 10 October 1960 | 19 June 1961 | 60-90 |
Monday | 9:30 p.m. | 2 October 1961 | 11 June 1962 | 60-90 |
Monday | 9:30 p.m. | 1 October 1962 | 20 May 1963 | 60-135 |
Wednesday | 9:30 p.m. | 2 October 1963 | 24 June 1964 | 90 |
Wednesday | 9:30 p.m. | 7 October 1964 | 30 June 1965 | 30 |
Wednesday | 9:30 p.m. | 15 September 1965 | 6 July 1966 | 30 |
Wednesday | 9:30 p.m. | 14 September 1966 | 10 May 1967 | 90 |
Wednesday | 9:30 p.m. | 4 October 1967 | 8 May 1968 | 90 |
Wednesday | 9:30 p.m. | 30 October 1968 | 26 March 1969 | 90 |
Festival was pre-empted some weeks with such programming as specials from the Omnibus or Hall of Fame series, or by sports (hockey, football), or by other special programs.
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Title | Writer | Original air date | |
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"H.M.S. Pinafore" | Gilbert and Sullivan | 10 October 1960 | |
Features the Stratford Festival cast, produced by Norman Campbell[1] | |||
"Colombe" | Jean Anouilh (play), Ivor Barry (adaptation) | 17 October 1960 | |
Starring Kathleen Widdoes, Jeremy Wilkin, Mary Savidge, Timothy Findley[5] | |||
"The Old Ladies" | Hugh Walpole | 31 October 1960 | |
Drama starring Martita Hunt (Agatha), Frances Hyland (Miss Berringer), Betty Leighton (Lucy Amorest)[6][7] | |||
"Peking Opera" | Unknown | 21 November 1960 | |
Recorded in Montreal, the Chinese troupe performs acrobatics, dance, mime, music and weapon-play.[8] | |||
"Julius Caesar" | William Shakespeare, adapted by Paul Almond | 19 December 1960 | |
Starring Gillie Fenwick, Bruno Gerussi, Frances Hyland, Douglas Rain, Kate Reid, William Shatner, Fritz Weaver; produced by Paul Almond[9] | |||
"Ring Round the Moon" | Jean Anouilh | 2 January 1961 | |
Starring Toby Robins, Sharon Acker, Leo Ciceri[10] | |||
"Home of the Brave" | Arthur Laurents | 9 January 1961 | |
"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" | Oscar Wilde | 16 January 1961 | |
"Elektra" | Richard Strauss, Franz Kraemer translation | 23 January 1961 | |
Starring Richard Cassily, Victor Godfrey, Virginia Gordoni, Ilona Kombrink, Elena Nikolaidi;[13] Music was performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind. The production was recorded early January 1961 in Toronto and cost $60,000.[14] | |||
"The Subject is Beethoven" | Unknown | 6 February 1961 | |
"Three Sisters" | Anton Chekhov | 13 February 1961 | |
Starring Frances Hyland, Michael Learned, Kate Reid[16] | |||
"Night Must Fall" | Emlyn Williams | 20 February 1961 | |
"The Dumb Waiter / The Zoo Story" | Unknown | 6 March 1961 | |
"Orphee" | Christoph Willibald Gluck | 13 March 1961 | |
Opera[19] | |||
"An Omnibus of American Songs" | Unknown | 20 March 1961 | |
"Great Expectations" | Charles Dickens | 27 March 1961 | |
"Royal Gambit" | Unknown | 3 April 1961 | |
Starring Katherine Blake, Albert Dekker, Louise Nicol, Kate Reid, Tani Seitz[22] | |||
"The Subject is Beethoven (repeat)" | Unknown | 17 April 1961 | |
Rebroadcast from 6 February 1961, featuring Glenn Gould[23] | |||
"Pictures in the Hallway" | Seán O'Casey | 24 April 1961 | |
Starring Douglas Rain (narrator), Frances Hyland, Diana Maddox, Liam Redmond[24] | |||
"The Dybbuk" | S. Ansky | 1 May 1961 | |
Starring Luther Adler (Rabbi), Dino Narizzano (Channon), Avra Petrides (Leah), Joseph Wiseman (Messenger); produced by Harvey Hart, adapted by Mac Shoub[25] | |||
"The Police" | Sławomir Mrożek | 8 May 1961 | |
"Falstaff" | Verdi | 15 May 1961 | |
Featuring Louis Quilico[27] | |||
"The Pupil" | Henry James | 22 May 1961 | |
Starring Albert Dekker, William Job[28] | |||
"The Quare Fellow" | Brendan Behan | 29 May 1961 | |
"The Offbeats" | Jacques Languirand (English adaptation of his play Les Insolites) | 5 June 1961 | |
Starring Peter Brockington, James Doohan (Jules), James Edmond, Gillie Fenwick, Jill Foster, Eric House (Barman), Charles Palmer (Ernest), Catherine Proctor, Drew Thompson (Pitt); produced by Mario Prizek[30] | |||
"The Killdeer" | Unknown | 12 June 1961 | |
"The Luck of Ginger Coffey" | Brian Moore (novel), M. Charles Cohen (adaptation) | 19 June 1961 | |
The program was simply billed as Festival in its second season. Most pre-empted weeks were for special episodes of Camera Canada.
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Title | Writer | Original air date | |
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"The Pirates of Penzance" | Gilbert and Sullivan | 2 October 1961 | |
"Ondine" | Jean Giraudoux | 9 October 1961 | |
Kathleen Widdoes plays the title role[36] | |||
"The Dream of Peter Mann" | Bernard Kops | 16 October 1961 | |
"Land of the Old Song" | Unknown | 23 October 1961 | |
Ed McCurdy performs Nova Scotian folk songs[38] | |||
"The Blue Hotel" | Stephen Crane, adapted by James Agee | 6 November 1961 | |
Starring Howard Da Silva[39] | |||
"Carmen" | Bizet | 20 November 1961 | |
Featuring the Metropolitan Opera's Belen Amparan[40] | |||
"Sleep of Prisoners" | Christopher Fry | 27 November 1961 | |
Paul Almond produced this drama[41] | |||
"Swan Lake" | Tchaikovsky | 18 December 1961 | |
Performed by the National Ballet Company of Canada[42] | |||
"A Cradle of Willow" | Dorothy Wright | 25 December 1961 | |
Christmas drama starring Eric Christmas, Leo Ciceri, Dino Narizzano, Tony Van Bridge[43] | |||
"Traveller Without Luggage" | Jean Anouilh | 1 January 1962 | |
Starring Geoffrey Alexander James Douglas, Jane Mallet, Norman Renault, Mary Savidge[44] | |||
"The Day of the Dodo" | Ron Boorne | 8 January 1962 | |
Drama concerning aeronautical workers; starring John Drainie, Bruno Gerussi, William Needles, Kate Reid[45] | |||
"The Lady's Not For Burning" | Christopher Fry | 15 January 1962 | |
Starring Zoe Caldwell (Jennet Jourdemayne), Eric Christmas (Mayor Hebble Tyson), Donald Harron (Thomas Mendip), Mary Savidge (Margaret Devize); produced by Paul Almond, costumes by Horst Daniz, sets by Rudi Dorn[46] | |||
"An Evening With Gilbert and Sullivan" | Unknown | 22 January 1962 | |
Portions of Gilbert and Sullivan's works are performed by the Stratford Light Opera: portions of The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance and The Yeoman of the Guard, plus the full version of Trial By Jury; produced by Norman Campbell[47] | |||
"The Queen and the Rebels" | Ugo Betts | 5 February 1962 | |
Starring Barbara Chilcott, Donald Harron, Charmion King, Mavor Moore[48] | |||
"Elizabeth the Queen" | Maxwell Anderson | 12 February 1962 | |
Historical drama starring Eric Christmas, Leo Ciceri, Donald Davis, Peter Donat, Judith Evelyn, Douglas Rains[49] | |||
"Bousille and the Just" | Gratien Gelinas | 26 February 1962 | |
Starring James Doohan, Gratien Gelinas, Charmion King, Larry Mann[50] | |||
"The Apple Cart" | George Bernard Shaw | 5 March 1962 | |
Starring Zoe Caldwell (Orinthia), Murray Matheson (King Magnus), Mary Savidge, Tony Van Bridge, Norman Welsh[51] | |||
"The Offshore Island" | Marghanita Laski, adapted by Hugh Webster | 12 March 1962 | |
Drama set following a nuclear war[52] | |||
"The Duchess of Malfi" | John Webster | 19 March 1962 | |
Starring Lloyd Bochner, Frances Hyland (Duchess of Malfi), Douglas Rain (Bosola), Powys Thomas, John Vernon; directed by Mario Prizek[53] | |||
"The Luck of Ginger Coffey" | Brian Moore | 2 April 1962 | |
repeat of 19 June 1961 broadcast[54] | |||
"Grand Exits" | Jacques Languirand | 16 April 1962 | |
Starring John Drainie, Frances Hyland, Norma Renault[55] | |||
"Macbeth" | William Shakespeare | 23 April 1962 | |
Starring Zoe Caldwell, Sean Connery, William Needles Powys Thomas[56] | |||
"The Brass Pounder from Illinois" | Tommy Tweed | 7 May 1962 | |
Concerns the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway under William Van Horne[57] | |||
"The Offshore Island" | Marghanita Laski, adapted by Hugh Webster | 14 May 1962 | |
repeat of the 12 March 1962 broadcast[58] | |||
"Eugene Ormandy Conducts" | Unknown | 21 May 1962 | |
The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra performs works by American songwriters under the direction of Ormandy[59] | |||
"The Collection / A Slight Ache" | Harold Pinter | 4 June 1962 | |
"Stravinsky at 80" | Unknown | 11 June 1962 | |
Igor Stravinsky's birthday is celebrated as he conducts the CBC Symphony Orchestra, including a performance of his "Symphony of Psalms"; Robert Craft narrates and conducts the orchestra for certain selections; the program includes appearances by four members of the New York City Ballet, the Festival Singers of Toronto, Nadia Boulanger and George Balanchine; Franz Kraemer produced and directed this broadcast which was recorded in Toronto[61] |
Weeks not indicated were pre-empted by special broadcasts such as Camera Canada or The Telephone Hour. National election coverage pre-empted Festival on 8 April 1963.
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Title | Writer | Original air date | |
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"The Lark" | Jean Anouilh, adaptation by Lillian Hellman | 1 October 1962 | |
Starring Douglas Rain and Kathleen Widdoes.[62] | |||
"A Book With Chapters in It" | Jack Pullman | 8 October 1962 | |
Starring Martin Stephens.[63] | |||
"Richard Strauss: A Personal View" | Unknown | 15 October 1962 | |
Lois Marshall (soprano) and Oscar Shumsky (violin) join Glenn Gould in this presentation of Richard Strauss's works.[64] | |||
"The Gambler" | Ugo Betti, adaptation by Alvin Goldman | 29 October 1962 | |
"The Devil's Instrument" | W. O. Mitchell | 5 November 1962 | |
Starring Inge Bergman, Robert Christie, John Drainie, Ron Hartman, Douglas Rain[67] | |||
"Break-Up" | Helge Krog | 12 November 1962 | |
Starring Barbara Chilcott, Leo Ciceri, Leslie Nielsen; produced by Mario Prizek[68] | |||
"The Gondoliers" | Gilbert & Sullivan | 19 November 1962 | |
Stratford Festival production, starring Douglas Campbell, Ann Casson, Jack Creley, Ilona Kombrink; music by Louis Applebaum conducting the National Festival Orchestra, production by Norman Campbell[69] | |||
"Serjeant Musgrave's Dance" | John Arden | 26 November 1962 | |
"An Evening of Mozart" | Unknown | 3 December 1962 | |
Music with Pierrette Alarie, Malcom Frager, Leopold Simoneau[71] | |||
"Giselle" | Unknown | 17 December 1962 | |
National Ballet of Canada performance featuring Lois Smith[72] | |||
"A Cradle of Willow" | Dorothy Wright | 24 December 1962 | |
Repeat of 25 December 1961[73] | |||
"Tongues of Brass" | Unknown | 31 December 1962 | |
Performance by Canadian jazz musicians[74] | |||
"Music from the Films" | Unknown | 21 January 1963 | |
Four composers present their own compositions for film, performed by the CBC Symphony Orchestra. Featuring Louis Applebaum (Action Stations, A Round is a Round), Aaron Copland (Something Wild), David Raksin (Two Weeks in Another Town), William Walton (Henry V, The First of the Few); narrated by Tony Thomas, produced by Norman Campbell[75][76] | |||
"David, Chapter II" | M. Charles Cohen | 28 January 1963 | |
"Ivan" | Anthony Terpiloff | 11 February 1963 | |
Starring John Colicos, Gillie Fenwick, Mavor Moore, Julie Rekai[79] | |||
"Venus Observed" | Christopher Fry | 18 February 1963 | |
Comedy starring David Dodimead, Martha Henry; was originally scheduled for broadcast 7 January 1963, but delayed due to videotape erasure.[80] | |||
"The Wild Duck" | Henrik Ibsen, adaptation by Alvin Goldman | 25 February 1963 | |
Starring John Colicos, Peter Donat, Diane Leblanc, Everett Sloane[81] | |||
"The Anatomy of Fugue" | Unknown | 4 March 1963 | |
Music performance featuring Glenn Gould, The Canadian String Quartet and four vocalists[82] | |||
"The Endless Echo" | Jean-Robert Remillard, translation by Alvin Goldman | 11 March 1963 | |
Play starring Len Birman, Martha Henry[83] | |||
"The Doctor's Dilemma" | George Bernard Shaw | 18 March 1963 | |
Starring Zoe Caldwell, Peter Donat, Gillie Fenwick, Leo Genn[84] | |||
"Galileo" | Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Lister Sinclair | 25 March 1963 | |
"Birth of a Symphony" | Unknown | 1 April 1963 | |
Performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 by the Festival Orchestra with conductor Karl Boehm[87] | |||
"Laudes Evanglii" | Unknown | 15 April 1963 | |
"Othello" | Verdi | 22 April 1963 | |
Starring Richard Cassilly, Ilona Kombrink, John McCollum, Louis Quilico, Jan Rubes; broadcast from 8:30 Eastern due to program length of 2 hours 15 minutes[90] | |||
"A Book With Chapters in It" | Jack Pullman | 29 April 1963 | |
Repeat from 8 October 1962[91] | |||
"Ballet Espagnol" | Unknown | 6 May 1963 | |
Dance performance by Spain's Ximienez Vargas Ballet Company[92] | |||
"The American Dream / The Sandbox" | Edward Albee | 13 May 1963 | |
"David, Chapter II" | M. Charles Cohen | 20 May 1963 | |
Repeat of 28 January 1963[95] |
Weeks not indicated were pre-empted by special broadcasts such as Camera Canada, Horizon or Intertel. NHL hockey playoffs pre-empted Festival on 8 April 1964.
Title | Writer | Original air date | |
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"The Mikado" | Gilbert and Sullivan | 2 October 1963 | |
"Antigone" | Jean Anouilh | 9 October 1963 | |
Starring Suzanne Grossman, Budd Knapp, Dino Narizzano, Douglas Rain[98] | |||
"The Labyrinth" | Charles Israel | 16 October 1963 | |
James Doohan, Alice Hill, Budd Knapp, Arch McDonnell, Janis Orenstein[99] | |||
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" | Katherine Anne Porter | 23 October 1963 | |
Play concerning the 1918 influenza epidemic, starring Keir Dullea, Joan Hackett[100] | |||
"Le Médecin malgré lui" | Molière | 30 October 1963 | |
"Viennese Night" | Unknown | 6 November 1963 | |
Music performance featuring soloist Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and conductor Willi Boskovsky[103] | |||
"I Spy / A Resounding Tinkle" | John Mortimer and N. F. Simpson | 13 November 1963 | |
Two plays are featured: "I Spy" stars Henry Comor, Eric House, Hilary Vernon, and "A Resounding Tinkle" stars Helen Burns, Eric House[104] | |||
"Pierre Boulez, Frenchman, Composer, Conductor" | Unknown | 20 November 1963 | |
Broadcast of a Radio-Canada music performance featuring works by Debussy, Stravinsky with works by Boulez himself[105] | |||
"The Slave of Truth" | Molière | 27 November 1963 | |
Adaptation of Le Misanthrope starring Leo Ciceri, James Douglas, Michael Learned, Toby Robins, Norman Welsh[106] | |||
"Roots" | Arnold Wesker | 4 December 1963 | |
Starring Vanya Franck, Geraldine McEwan, Powys Thomas, Margery Withers[107] | |||
"A Primer on Prima Donnas" | Unknown | 11 December 1963 | |
Recollections of historic opera performers, performed by Joan Sutherland with Richard Bonynge conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra[108] | |||
"Diary of a Scoundrel" | Alexander Ostrovsky | 25 December 1963 | |
Comedy set in mid 19th century Russia, starring Peter Donat, Norma Renault, Hilary Vernon, Hugh Webster[109] | |||
"Still Life" | Jack Pulman | 1 January 1964 | |
Starring Michael Crawford, Budd Knapp, Nancy Wickwire[110] | |||
"Major Barbara" | Bernard Shaw | 8 January 1964 | |
Starring Gillie Fenwick (Andrew Undershaft), Frances Hyland (Major Barbara)[111] | |||
"First Love" | Ivan Turgenev | 22 January 1964 | |
Starring Paul Harding, Jane Mallett, Richard Monette, Heather Sears[112] | |||
"A Very Close Family" | Bernard Slade | 29 January 1964 | |
"Pas de Dix / The Bitter Weird" | George Ballanchine, Agnes de Mille | 5 February 1964 | |
Royal Winnipeg Ballet performance[114] | |||
"Young Canadians in Concert" | Unknown | 19 February 1964 | |
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra in concert, introduced by Wilfrid Pelletier, produced by Franz Kraemer[115] | |||
"Uncle Vanya" | Anton Chekhov | 26 February 1964 | |
Starring Winifred Dennis, Rita Gam, Eric House, William Hutt, Roberta Maxwell, John Vernon[116] | |||
"Place des Arts" | Unknown | 4 March 1964 | |
Zubin Mehta conducts the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Strauss's Ein Heldenleben[117] | |||
"The Firebugs" | Max Frisch, adapted by John Bethune | 11 March 1964 | |
Starring Patricia Collins, Jack Creley, Lou Jacobi, Cosette Lee, John Vernon[118] | |||
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" | Unknown | 18 March 1964 | |
Repeat from 23 October 1963[119] | |||
"Diary of a Scoundrel" | Unknown | 1 April 1964 | |
Repeat from 25 December 1963[120] | |||
"Hamlet" | William Shakespeare | 15 April 1964 | |
"Othello" | Unknown | 22 April 1964 | |
Repeat from 22 April 1963[122] | |||
"Triple Play" | Unknown | 6 May 1964 | |
Three different styles of performance: ballet (National Ballet), folk (Ian and Sylvia Tyson) and jazz (Phil Nimmons' group)[123] | |||
"The Private Memoirs / Confessions of a Justified Sinner" | James Hogg | 13 May 1964 | |
Drama concerning crimes motivate by religious fanaticism; starring Gillie Fenwick, Paul Harding, Paul Massie, Neil McCallum, Norma Renault[124] | |||
"Concerti for Four Wednesdays" | Unknown | 3 June 1964 | |
Glenn Gould discusses and performs compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Sweelinck, Weber[125] | |||
"A Festival of Miniatures" | Unknown | 10 June 1964 | |
Overview of music compositions by Brahms, Debussy, Granados, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky, Webern[126] | |||
"Claudio Arrau" | Unknown | 17 June 1964 | |
Sonata No. 7 in A minor (Mozart) and Sonata in C minor Opus 111 (Beethoven) are performed by Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau.[127] | |||
"100th Birthday of Richard Strauss" | Unknown | 24 June 1964 | |
CBC Symphony Orchestra performs with Lois Marshall (soprano), Hermann Prey (baritone) in honour of Strauss[128] |
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