Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway 1776. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about this musical, which presents history as painted by a sidewalk sketch artist. The Peter Stone book depends on the audience to expect the expectable and to bring along its own worn coloring crayons to fill out the roles...
WHEN I was young and lived in the suburbs, life was very simple. Take me to a Washington Senators game or put on the record of some Broadway musical, and you were my friend for life. It is no wonder that my parents became my friends for life when they took me see Damn Yankees, not only the first musical I had ever seen in the flesh, but one about the Senators winning the pennant to boot...
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SWEET CHARITY. This adaptation of the Broadway musical about a heart-of-gold "hostess" fairly bursts its seams with misdirected stylistic energy. Shirley MacLaine is a commendable Charity, and some of the tunes are catchy, but the result is sadly lacking in vitality...
...Harry goes on a quest to find an expedient princess. From the marsh he brings back Winnifred the Woebegone--"Fred" to her friends and Carol Burnett on Broadway. Carol Simon puts enough personality and energy into the part that Miss Burnett's absence from Lehman Hall is not tragic...