Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Maureen O'Sullivan, 72, actress who won fame as Tarzan's demure jungle mate Jane in the movie series and who appeared in 1980 on Broadway in Morning's at Seven; and James Gushing, 63, a construction-company board chairman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Loudonville...
Unfortunately, La Cage is not always up to the level of its best performances or its best moments. Herman's music is better-than-average Broadway fare, hummable and with a simple, insistent beat. But his lyrics are often trite and vulgar. "Look under our glitz, muscles and tits," he writes in one song. Fierstein's book is sometimes forced; the campy scenes with the black maid/butler (William Thomas Jr.) quickly become tedious, for example Arthur Laurents' direction is occasionally jarringly awry, as when he has the mother of Jean-Michel's fiancee do a degrading...
...with the lyric "You may throw all the rice you desire.But please, friends, throw no shoes" and concluded in 1954 with his lyrics for the Bing Crosby movie The Country Girl, Ira Gershwin did not do badly. Last week, when he died at 86, he had a "new" Broadway hit on Broadway (My One and Only, featuring 17 Gershwin songs) and a "new" movie about to be released (the restored, three-hour version of A Star Is Born, the 1954 Judy Garland vehicle he wrote with Harold Arlen). The words he set to music are still sung regularly in nightclubs...
...born on Manhattan's Lower East Side of middle-class Russian-Jewish parents. In 1920 George, who had already contributed songs to shows, asked his brother for some lyrics, and the Gershwin partnership was born, although Ira at first used the pseudonym Arthur Francis. In their first Broadway show, Lady, Be Good (1924), they began a fruitful collaboration with Fred Astaire, who was starring with his sister Adele. Other stars soon recognized a good thing. Gertrude Lawrence sang Someone to Watch over Me in Oh, Kay! (1926); in Girl Crazy (1930), young Ginger Rogers sang...
...least one song Ira could achieve the compression of poetry with three astonishing leaps of mood: "The way you hold your knife. "The way we danced till three," The way you've changed my life-/ No, no! They can't take that away from me!" Wrote Broadway Songwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green of lyrics like these: "It's very clear they're here to stay-as long as anyone remembers anything about the 20th century...