Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1954 ka hoki a Atkinson ki Broadway ki te whetū hei Clyde Hallam i te kaiwhakaari taketake o "The Girl in Pink Tights" a Sigmund Romberg. I te tau 1955 i wheturangitia ia i te taha o Carol Channing i roto i te mahinga Broadway taketake o John La Touche's "The Vamp". I te tau 1956 i whakaahuatia e ia nga mahi e rua i roto i nga whakaoranga puoro i whakauruhia e te NYCO i Lincoln Center: Frederick C. Graham ki a Lilli Vanessi a Kitty Carlisle i roto i te "Kiss Me, Kate" a Cole Porter me Gaylord Ravenal i roto i te "Show Boat" a Jerome Kern. I hoki ia ki Lincoln Center i te tau 1957 ki te mahi i te mahi a Tommy Albright i te whakaoranga o te NYCO o Lerner me Loewe's "Brigadoon" i neke ai ki te Whare Tapere Adelphi i Broadway. I taua tau ano i whakaahuatia e ia a Jack Worthing i roto i te "Ko wai te mea nui?", he whakatakotoranga puoro o Oscar Wilde's "Te hiranga o te mea nui" i tukuna i runga i te kaupapa pouaka whakaata "The United States Steel Hour". I te tau 1958 i hangaia e ia te tūranga o Doctor Gregg i te whakaaturanga tuatahi o te ao o te opera a Douglas Moore "Gallantry" i te whare tapere Brander Matthews kua whakangaromia inaianei i te 117th Street. I kitea hoki ia i te Lincoln Center i te 1958 hei Frank Butler i te whakaoranga o te NYCO o "Annie Get Your Gun" me te Lieutenant Henry Lukash i te whakaaturanga tuatahi o te ao o te opera a Robert Kurka "The Good Soldier Schweik". I whakaahuatia hoki e ia te tūranga o Billy ki a Jan Clayton's Julie me Ruth Kobart's Nettie i Rodgers me Hammerstein's "Carousel" i roto i te mahinga i te
Brussels World's Fair. Ko te mea nui, ko te I te tau 1959 i wheturangitia ia i te NYCO i roto i te whakaoranga o "Say, Darling" me te Pantaloon i te whakaaturanga tuatahi o te ao a Robert Ward "He Who Gets Slapped" me Norman Kelley hei Count Mancini me Regina Sarfaty hei Zinida. I te tau 1959, i puta ia i roto i te mahinga a te San Francisco Light Opera Company o "At the Grand", hei Kaiwhakawā i roto i te whakaoranga o "Can-Can" i Central Park, a ka puta ko Count Danilo Danilovitsch i roto i te hanga pouaka whakaata mo te "The Merry Widow" a Franz Lehár mo CBC Television.