Word: boredin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aleksandr Boredin's first musical since Prince igor hit the boards in 1890 is an entertaining show, in spite of some remarkably shoddy ingredients. Unlike igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With a vigorous cootch dance, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "CAll me in the harom; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistringuishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adien without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind...
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