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...Complete Consumer Book by Bess Myerson. The shopper who spends $9.95 for this book will discover that even consumer advocates can be guilty of false and misleading labeling: Myerson is by no means "complete." The 100 or so pages devoted to owning a house, for example, dispatch property insurance in four paragraphs. Retirement planning in Myerson's view seems to consist only of setting up a tax-deferred IRA or Keogh Plan savings fund. The former Miss America and ex-commissioner of consumer affairs for New York City is hardheaded about bargaining over terms, especially when buying a home...
...points are debatable. She sweepingly dismisses rock musicals, even though rock is not necessarily incompatible with musical theater. (Indeed, the Beatles sang a song from The Music Man on their first hit American album.) Kaye's list of ground-breaking shows ignores such obvious candidates as Porgy and Bess, Pal Joey, The Most Happy Fella, West Side Story and Follies. She should get around to these soon. Musical Comedy Tonight is billed as the pilot for a series. By rights, it ought to run as long as the great musicals it celebrates...
...birth is presented as his first "great escape." But he remains passionately tied to his mother. Her death at the peak of his career leads him to court, then to denounce, the spiritualists who are unable to put him in touch with her. After his own death, his wife Bess holds seances for ten years in an attempt to reach...
...first of two performances last week, an electrical failure plunged the music tent into blackness at the finale, prompting a brief, wild surmise that Bess had succeeded.) Death, she sings to his departed spirit, is the "door from which you will never escape...
...Houdini, Tenor Jerold Norman was re-creating his role in the Amsterdam production, and the experience showed in his secure, if rather monochromatic, performance. Other major roles were ably filled by Rita Shane as Houdini's mother, John Brandstetter as his manager and Viviane Thomas as Bess. Conductor Richard Dufallo, who heads Aspen's annual Conference on Contemporary Music (at which Schat is one of this year's composers-in-residence), had the work firmly in hand. His youthful chorus and orchestra managed most of the score's difficulties, though without making them sound any less...