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Tuesday, December 31 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Shirley Booth won an Oscar for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) opposite Burt Lancaster, Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel...
Promises, Promises--You might prefer to listen to the original cast album instead of going to the show, but the Burt Bachrach-Hal David score to this musical version of "The Apartment" is something to be heard. If you attend the show, beware of the unfortunate Neil Simon book. At the SCHUBERT, W. 44th...
...book's comic tone is bland rather than pithy, a little disappointing coming from Neil Simon. The rhythms of the Burt Bacharach score sound like sporadic rifle fire, and aside from one melodic lament, I'II Never Fall in Love Again, the songs are interchangeably tuneless. In the first-act finale, a Christmas office-party number produces a vigorous choreographic commotion, except that it obviously attempts to duplicate the volcanic Brotherhood of Man sequence in How to Succeed...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m.-midnight). The Hallelujah Trail (1965). Western comedy with Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Martin Landau, Pamela Tiffin and Donald Pleasence...
...THEY don't positively leap on stage with a hoot and a "Down with Jerry Herman!" sign, Burt Bacharach and Hal David nevertheless make a wicked entrance in the proceedings now on display at the Colonial. Each micro-second of music has the Bacharach-David signature: a souped-up piano, an unseen chorus blowing like the wind over solos and ensemble numbers alike, tunes that demand alternately a whisper and a belt, and lyrics that stick so close to life in its physical and emotional details as to leave no room either for clever allusions or technical bravado. The long...