Word: bocke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several books within the bock inform its action things happen "as they do in one of R.'s novels." In the aging writer, writing on in the work of his creator, there is just a touch of self-parody, but a good deal more of sarcasm directed at critics who have falsely imputed to Nabokov several of old R.s' eccentricities, e.g., lusting after young girls...
With music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the show is full of bits and pieces of waltzes, rhapsodies and tangoes and about as far away from typical Broadway fare as its setting in the Budapest of the 1930s. Eschewing razzmatazz show-stoppers, She Loves Me depends instead on a small ensemble and a collection of melodies that drift through the air--often in two and three-part combinations--as if they are the essences of the perfumes that line the walls of the story-book shop in which the action takes place. Director Josh Rubins has done...
...Loves Me musical by Bock and Harnick. Agassiz Theatre. 8:30, April 13, $3-2. April...
...Music, Diamond became quite good at spotting a dud song -or so he thought. "Like the time these two guys in the cubicle next to me kept beating out those old-fashioned Jewish tunes. Man, I knew for sure they weren't going anywhere." The two guys were Bock and Harnick, and the Jewish songs eventually evolved into Fiddler on the Roof. Diamond doesn't make that kind of mistake any more...
...Rothschilds is not a top-drawer musical. It is not exciting or innovative, but it is a pleasant way to while away an evening. The Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score neatly dovetails into the book, but it lacks any single rousing number like "Tradition" from their Fiddler on the Roof score. Hal Linden is warmly convincing as a Jewish Joe Kennedy. Except for Nathan Rothschild (Paul Hecht), the brother in London, the sons are not individually distinct. Absent from the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater are two favorite Rothschilds-Mouton and Lafite...