Word: bocke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Book by JOE MASTEROFF Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK
...sign of danger for the Mayaguez was the sudden appearance at 2:20 p.m. (3:20 a.m. in Washington) of a Cambodian gunboat. It fired machine gun bullets and a rocket across the freighter's bow and forced her to stop. Radio Operator Wilbert Bock got off a last distress call. Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent. But the last message was picked up in Indonesia by agents of the ship's owner and relayed to the State Department in Washington...
...Apple Tree is based on three stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stoekton and Jules Feiffer, but any trace of these authors' original intent has been systematically expunged in the adaptation by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Hamick. The first segment. "The Diary of Adam and Eve," describes the problems of setting up the world's very first household. These problems, however, are in significant when compared to Eve's (Debby Rayson's) inability to find a register in which her troublesome voice will be content to stay. Eve weasels her way into Adam's hut, and finally into his heart...
...first, Adam didn't really like Eve, but by the end of the skit they are proclaiming their undying love to each other. They didn't really leave paradise, because they still had each other, and that, you see, is paradise. Unfortunately, Bock and Harnick insist upon reiterating this devastating insight three times in songs so soggy with sentimentality you could dunk your donuts in them...
...snow-white aircraft sped down the runway and made a graceful ascent to 10,000 ft. over Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. When it landed 90 minutes later, its first flight test was considered nearly perfect. "It equaled our predictions in every way," said Pilot Charles Bock...