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...automatic. One such automatic reflex is the assumption that any hit play of the past can be transformed into a successful musical. The process goes like this: chop the original text into fragments, toss in songs and dances, and whir everything together at the pace of a Waring blender. The resulting concoction blandly eludes taste, flavor or identity...
This is more or less what has happened to the 1958 hit Two for the Seesaw-except that the blender breaks down from time to time. The hero, Jerry Ryan, is a WASP lawyer on separation leave from 1) Omaha and 2) his wife. Ken Howard, who plays this role, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to New York Mayor John Vliet Lindsay. The heroine, Gittel Mosca (Michele Lee), is an artsy Jewish girl on the lam from The Bronx to Greenwich Village. She is spunky and sassy, but inwardly scared. Out of mutual need, the pair promptly share bedded bliss...
...Tufts this weekend. Bonnie Raitt can sing anything she puts her mind to, but she's best at the blues, besides being one of your finer slide and Mississippi National Steel guitar players. But it won't be worth the price of admission unless she sings "Waring Blender Blues." Be forewarned...
...that is successful in project ing positive feelings about life," Olden burg maintains, "has got to be heavily erotic." So the kapok-stuffed blades of a soft blender dangle like pendulous breasts; a fireplug mimics a torso...
...making it painfully clear that the young today seem to like their jazz every bit as loud as rock. Yet it was astounding to hear one band after another mix rock, the classics, or electronic compositions into fertile jazz blends. Even Guest Star Dizzy Gillespie, something of a master blender himself, had to take notice. The loudspeakers could not quite conceal the virtuosity of the young players and their apparent ability to make music out of anything and everything. Such a meeting of diverse idioms seemed to bear out Duke Ellington's famous prediction about the pop scene. "Soon...