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...Abner (based on Al Capp's characters ; book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; music by Gene de Paul; lyrics by Johnny Mercer) sometimes gloriously explodes, sometimes damply splutters, as a big Broadway show. Suddenly, with something fine and deafening from the orchestra, suddenly with something fine and floor-shaking from the chorus, Al Capp's comic-strip community bounces to life. At other times, behind musicomedy goggles, Capp's satiric eye notes and needles skulduggery, stupidity, conformity. But there are numerous occasions when the Capp menagerie, let out of their neat newspaper cages, noisily lose their...
...there actually "millions" of women voters who will base their affiliations on photographs of the "family group" that may inhabit the White House next year? If there are, I suggest that we elect Pappy Yokum, and install Mammy Yokum, Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae and Honest Abe in the White House. They meet every requirement: typically American, non-Ivy League and quite "natural...
...Abner's simple satire is often lost in this maze, and the frequent barbed references--to Ike, parity, Stevenson, Presley, toothpaste, Kim Novak, Wall St. and war--often overweigh the two long acts...
...Abner is lucky to have Mr. Kidd, for the plot is not strong, there is little acting, and the songs and singing are unexceptional...
...testing ground. Dogpatchers, led by Mammy Yokum, decide to market their own alcoholic distillate, which will make them indispensable to the nation. Their product becomes a security matter and involves the mercenary interests of General Bullmoose. Only Mammy's triple whammy and a herd of relatives save Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae from disastrous marriages and actually end an egregiously complicated story...