How it was 03.01.1998 (1998)

Topic of the program: "New Year at Sovremennik" The host congratulates the audience on the New Year.

Chronicle: actors of the Sovremennik theater are on camera.

The host says that the actors of the legendary Sovremennik theater remember their first New Year at the theater.

The host invites the artists Volchek Galina Borisovna and Kvasha Igor Vladimirovich to the studio.

The host invites the guests to drink champagne.

Volchek G.B. says that the theater celebrated its first New Year at the "Soviet Hotel", recalls how the hall was decorated, how the actresses sewed outfits for the "Calico Ball" competition, the actress Arkhangelskaya Natalya Sergeevna received the first prize for a black and red dress.

The host invites the actress Ivanova Lyudmila Ivanovna to the studio.

Ivanova L.I. talks about the "Calico Ball" competition, where she took second place, there were three second places and actresses Tolmacheva Liliya and Doroshina Nina also received them.

The host asks those present, which of the women of the theater then dressed super fashionably.

Ivanova L.I. says, Volchek G.B. dressed super fashionably, she had a hobby to dress, and she had a taste for it.

Volchek G.B. says, she herself constantly came up with costumes and outfits, once made an original outfit from a sports "Dynamo" suit.

Kvasha I.V. says, Volchek G.B. herself draws and comes up with clothing models.

Ivanova L.I. recalls, Volchek G.B. loved to dress her friends and advised to buy various fabrics in stores.

The host asks those present, which of the men of the theater then dressed elegantly and fashionably.

Volchek G.B., Kvasha I.V. about Evstigneev Evgeny Aleksandrovich, his first visit to the theatre in a strange suit and shoes.

Volchek G.B. recalls, having earned her first money, she bought her husband Evstigneev E.A. a suit, a raincoat, a hat, shoes and a box of Christian Dior ties in a second-hand shop, when Evstigneev E.A. put on all the purchases, he was transformed, as if he had been wearing these things all his life.

Kvasha I.V. talks about how he and the artist Efremov Oleg organized the "Fakel" society, this happened at the final ball of the youth and student festival in Moscow in 1957. Kvasha I.V. recalls how she, Efremov Oleg and other young people walked around the territory of the Moscow Kremlin, sang songs, went to Red Square, then to a restaurant and a night taxi ride to Peredelkino.

The presenter asks those present to tell how they released the New Year's performance "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" on New Year's Eve.

Ivanova L.I. says that the rehearsal took place on the night of December 29-30, 1962. The presenter invites the actress who played the role of Snow White, Krylova Lyudmila Ivanovna, to the studio.

Krylova L.I. about the rehearsals of the performance "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" to which she came with her five-month-old son, who slept on chairs in Efremov O.'s office.

Ivanova L.I. says that Krylova Lyudmila and her husband Tabakov Oleg were constantly late.

Krylova L.I. about the rehearsals of the performances and Efremov O.'s reaction to the child.

Ivanova L.I. about the night rehearsal of the performance.

The host invites Sherel Alexander Arkadyevich to the studio.

Sherel A.A. talks about the New Year's Eve in 1962, where Tatyana Kvasha and Azariy Plisetsky showed themselves to be the best at performing the twist.

Kvasha I.V. talks about the ballet dancer Azariy Mikhailovich Plisetsky, who taught Igor Kavsha and his wife Tatyana to dance the twist.

Sherel A.A. recalls how he danced the twist with Lyudmila Gurchenko, communicating at a party with the writer Jean-Paul Sartre, K.M. Simonov, A.I. Solzhenitsyn, communicating with the spectators who stood in line for tickets to the Sovremennik Theater on New Year's Eve.

Kvasha I.V. talks about the authorities' attempt to close the theater in 1960 for the play "

The Naked King", rehearsals for the play, tours in Leningrad, B.A. Pokarzhevsky, an official of the USSR Ministry of Culture, positive reviews of the play from Leningrad. A.A. Sherel' about watching the play "

The Naked King"

by Nikolai Mikhailov, the USSR Minister of Culture. I.V. Kvasha talks about the attempt by Nikolai Mikhailov, the USSR Minister of Culture, to close the theater, which failed. I.V. Kvasha about Ekaterina Furtseva, the USSR Minister of Culture, and her decision to close the theater, which failed.

The host asks Lyudmila Ivanova to sing a song that she gave to the Sovremennik Theater.

Lyudmila Ivanovna Ivanova sings the song, her husband Valery Aleksandrovich Milyaev accompanies her on the guitar.

The program uses fragments from the Sovremennik Theatre's performance based on E. Schwartz's play "The Naked King" (1977, directed by Mikaelyan M.I.).