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H-2 Pittsburgh Press, July 24, 1977 Versatile Rear don Returns To Musicals f. lishes magazines and produces radio shows. "I love the city and hope it never grows, but I'm never there just 1 as I was seldom in New York. Most of the time I am busy singing elsewhere." MISS BEERY, who has been here so often City Treasurer Joseph Cosetti must wonder if she should not be classi-' fied a permanent resident, comes here after a busy spring and summer. She played Maria in "Sound of Music" in Niagra Falls and Eliza in "My Fair Lady" at the Papermill Playhouse in I New Jersey.

"I am looking forward to a long rest after Pittsburgh," she said. "I was overwhelmed to find Maria such a dif-: ficult role. She is on stage during most of the performance and there were 13 costume changes." Miss Beery, who won a Tony nomi- nation for her performance in "Cyrano" I on Broadway, had high praise for the CLO operation. "I have done summer stock in St. Louis, Dallas, Kansas City and with the i Kenley Players, and I am always happy to get back to Pittsburgh.

There is a' solid professional staff nere and they always know what they are doing." make a choice between musicals and opera. I chose opera." He joined the New York City Opera in 1965, the Met soon after. In recent years, Reardon has gone back to musicals, including singing in "Kismet" at Wolf Trap, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco this summer and fall. He also has engag-ments with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Center and the Philadelphia Orchestra at Saratoga this summer. Next October he will perform with the National Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein in Bernstein's new work, "American Songfest," at Kennedy Center.

"Some 14 songs are involved in the premiere," he said. "Although some have been performed elsewhere before, this is the first time all 14 will be done. The regular conductor of the National, Mstislav Rostropovich, will do the solo cello work for the Kennedy Center performance." Reardon, formerly of New York City, recently moved to Sante Fe, a city he came to love while performing, in opera there. He is a part-time owner of the Sunstone Agency there which pub By CARL APONE Press Music Editor Metropolitan Opera baritone John Reardon is one of the most sought-after singers in the nation. He has a remarkable repertoire of more than 100 operatic roles, including 20 premiers, some written especially for him.

In addition, this summer and fall he will sing in summer musicals. Yet he admits that wherever he goes, "half of the people know me from Pittsburgh's Fred Rogers childrens' show on TV." For the past nine years Reardon has done an annual original opera on the Channel 13 series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." This week, Reardon co-stars with Leigh Beery in the Civic Light Opera production of "Kismet." It will be his first CLO appearance in a lead role, though he was a resident actor for one season back in the CLO days at Pitt Stadium. Miss Beery will be playing her sixth starring role in three years here. According to Reardon, the people who come to him after his performances "find the Rogers show heart warming. It fills a place in the lives of their children no other program does.

Rogers touched their lives and related to them in a way which influences how they grow up. This is a kind of slap at 'Sesame I suppose, but Rogers did more than just teach them how to count from 1 to 20." He said the reaction to the annual TV opera was. "surprising. We got letters from parents who said their children went around singing original operas for two weeks after our performance." REARDON CALLED ROGERS "my closest friend. He lived across the hall from me at Rollins College.

His wife Joanne was also a student there. Now there is a family-like relationship with them." Mrs. Rogers teaches piano at Chatham College. Reardon, a 1952 Rollins graduate, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the college last year, one year after Rogers got his honorary doctorate there. In the early days of his career, Reardon spent a lot of time in musicals, including Broadway's "Do-Re-Mi" and "New Faces." "I was spending so much time in musical comedy I had to Prm Phoio by Allwn M.

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