Word: bittersweet
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...often happens, the last days of vacation were the bittersweet best. For Jacqueline Kennedy, returning late last week to the U.S. and her place as First Lady, there were the memories of the dancing, the lilting music, the faces of friendly people, the beaches, the blue, starred nights-and of the sadness of leaving Ravello...
...August 18: Rosalind Elias in "Bittersweet...
...theatre, and this fact may account for the volume and fullness of the music. In any case, the orchestra, unlike other music tent orchestras, gave the allusion of being very large and thus being. Especially capable of conveying the power of Coward's music, which in the case of Bittersweet demands a powerful sound...
Noel Coward's Bittersweet has remained through the years one of those musicals one remembers as something fine and wonderful, yet few of those who feel such a nostalgia for it could recite much of the plot or even the general situation. The production which opened on Monday evening at the North Shore Music Circus explains both the nostalgia and the general ignorance of the plot. The plot may be safely catalogued as one of the weakest around which a musical comedy was ever devised. The remembered youth of a romantic lady serves as the vehicle for all the cliches...
After hearing her performance in Bittersweet, one hopes for a recording of the operetta by Miss Elias. A new recording would be welcome, since the only available version (on Angel) is marred by mannerisms on the part of several of the performers and generally weak casting. In Beverly, however, the show itself is on display for the rest of the week. If one wants to see a truly professional singing actress transcend the limitations of plot and work through a fine score to achieve a memorable evening in the musical theatre, than he had better go to see Miss Elias...