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HIGH SPIRITS. Such wildly improbable sprites as Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes spook the musical version of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit into comic afterlife. Danny Daniels' dancers are wide-eyed and their steps nimbly inventive...
HIGH SPIRITS. Such wildly improbable sprites as Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes spook the musical version of Noöl Coward's Blithe Spirit into comic afterlife. Danny Daniels' dancers are wide-eyed and their steps nimbly inventive...
...Bea is an earthbound Nijinsky who can entrechat her way across a stage in half-inch leaps. Footwork is needlework to Bea-she crochets with her toes. If playgoers dare to laugh at her outlandishly comic bits of business, she freezes upon them the look of an embalmed codfish until they burst out laughing all over again. Her costumes are designed by the Mad Hatter...
Tammy materializes after a misbegotten seance recalls her from the dead to hex her slightly unnerved husband (Edward Woodward) and badly annoyed second wife (Louise Troy). The zany medium, Madame Arcati (Bea) leaves the trio to make the worst of things and the best of fun out of their unearthly...
...love ballad, If I Gave You ("prides of lions"), the Hugh Martin-Timothy Gray score is uneventful. Living in trial bigamy, Edward Woodward is as suave as he was simple in last season's Rattle of a Simple Man. But the good-luck charms of High Spirits are Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes, who push the show for laughs more often than it moves of its own free whim...