Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know things aren't ever going to be the same," she said, "now that they've stopped freedom of choice in the county. Seabreeze will be 25 per cent colored next year, and so will the faculty. And they're sending kids south of Broadway to Campbell; kids are circulating a petition at Seabreeze saying they won't go; it's just a mess...
Orson Welles said it best. Confronted by Hollywood's movie-making paraphernalia, he chortled: "This is the biggest electric train any boy ever had to play with." Broadway Choreographer-Director Bob Fosse obviously felt the same exhilaration. But all he could do with that expensive equipment was play around. The result is a chuffing, tooting, O-gauge musical, Sweet Charity...
Charity began in 1957 as the title character of Nights of Cabiria, an Italian sleeper about a Punchinello prostitute. The director-writer was Federico Fellini; the star was his wife, Giulietta Masina. Maintaining the tradition, Fosse turned the film into a Broadway musical starring his wife, Gwen Verdon, as a heart-of-gold "hostess" named Charity Hope Valentine...
...Making. The Broadway book had the grace to mock itself. In the end Charity was blessed by a good fairy -who turned out to be a costumed pitch woman plugging a CBS-TV show. Peter Stone's hollow adaptation takes itself seriously. Charity, maundering through Central Park, converses with a bunch of flower children who teach her the power of Love...
...idea of a musical about a warbling hooker approaching 40 remains as attractive today as it was in 1966 when it opened on Broadway. They ought to make a movie of it some...