Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu na paragraf a - N'afọ 1954 Atkinson laghachiri Broadway ka ọ kpọọ Clyde Hallam n'ihe nkiri mbụ nke Sigmund Romberg "The Girl in Pink Tights". N'afọ 1955, o sooro Carol Channing n'ihe nkiri Broadway mbụ nke John La Touche bụ "The Vamp". N'afọ 1956, ọ rụrụ ọrụ abụọ na egwu egwu nke NYCO mere na Lincoln Center: Frederick C. Graham na Kitty Carlisle's Lilli Vanessi na Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate" na Gaylord Ravenal na Jerome Kern's "Show Boat". Ọ laghachiri na Lincoln Center na 1957 ịrụ ọrụ nke Tommy Albright na NYCO si revival nke Lerner na Loewe si "Brigadoon" nke mgbe ahụ kwagara na Adelphi Ụlọ ihe nkiri na Broadway. N'otu afọ ahụ, ọ kpụrụ Jack Worthing na "Who's Earnest?", egwu egwu nke Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" nke a na-agbasa na mmemme telivishọn "The United States Steel Hour". N'afọ 1958, o kere ọrụ nke Dọkịta Gregg na ụwa nke Douglas Moore opera "Gallantry" na Brander Matthews Theater nke e bibiri ugbu a na 117th Street. A hụkwara ya na Lincoln Center n'afọ 1958 dịka Frank Butler na NYCO na-emegharị "Annie Get Your Gun" na dịka Lieutenant Henry Lukash na ụwa mbụ nke opera Robert Kurka "The Good Soldier Schweik". O gosikwara ọrụ nke Billy na Jan Clayton's Julie na Ruth Kobart's Nettie na Rodgers na Hammerstein's "Carousel" na mmepụta na Brussels World's Fair
Ọ dị mma. N'afọ 1959, ọ gbara na NYCO na nlọghachi nke "Say, Darling" na dị ka Pantaloon na ụwa nke mbụ nke Robert Ward "Onye Na-enweta Slapped" na Norman Kelley dị ka Count Mancini na Regina Sarfaty dị ka Zinida. N'afọ 1959 kwa, ọ pụtara na San Francisco Light Opera Company nke "At the Grand", dịka onye ọka ikpe na nlọghachi nke "Can-Can" na Central Park, wee pụta dị ka Count Danilo Danilovitsch na mmepụta telivishọn nke Franz Lehár's "The Merry Widow" maka CBC Television.