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Carnival! Lili, with a touch of Liliom, make a musical that is often, but not always, worthy of its exclamation mark. Anna Maria Alberghetti is the waif, and Pierre Olaf is a superb clown...
...Broadway Carnival! The magic world of a Continental circus comes alive in this pleasant and colorful reprise of the movie Lili. Anna Maria Alberghetti sings engagingly as the waif and Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster, but nimble Pierre Olaf tops the show in a jubilant dance...
...bright lights come on, the lilting music soars, and the multicolored mongrel troupe parades. Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at. Soon, a wispy, skinny-limbed, wide-eyed Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) turns up in search of a job, falls madly in love with Marco, is unwillingly loved by Paul. She gets a job holding the placards while jugglers and dancers and magicians perform, almost queers the performance, and then finds her right niche with Paul and his amusing puppets...
Gower Champion has staged and danced the show expertly, as has Will Stevens Armstrong designed and lighted it. There are some nice Bob Merrill songs; Miss Alberghetti has an engaging voice; Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster; as Marco and his gal, James Mitchell and Kaye Ballard have amusing scenes, particularly one where she is locked in a box through which he plunges swords. But the evening's peak comes with a whirling and jubilant "Grand Impérial Cirque de Paris" dance number, paced by the memorable little man of La Plume de Ma Tante, Pierre Olaf. Fetchingly...
...billing of Producer David Merrick (twelve moneymakers in his last 16 attempts), Director Gower Champion (one for one), Composer-Lyricist Bob Merrill (two for two). One of the book writers, Michael Stewart, proved himself in Bye Bye Birdie; the other, Helen Deutsch, is untested, as is Star Anna Maria Alberghetti...