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MUSICALS. Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome. The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival!, and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point, is a corny mixture of Irish sass and sentiment. As for Rodgers and Hammerstein...
MUSICALS. On balance, Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome! The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival! and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point is a corny mixture of Irish sass...
MUSICALS. On balance, Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome. The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival!, and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. As for Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is a national monument made of sugar, and should appeal to anyone...
Before long, Loesser's Frank Music Corp. had the new labor force organized. Admen could buy high-test jingles written by the firm's herd of known and unknown songwriters. Some of the knowns: Adler, Harold Rome (Destry Rides Again), Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Wildcat). Authorship is not revealed until the tune has been sold. "It's embarrassing," explained the firm's vice president, Stuart Ostrow, "for an important writer to go to bat for Pepsodent and be turned down." Average price, not including sizable royalties...
...catcher (informal clothes, brown boots) is worn on drooly days or bye-days (extra hunting days not listed on the appointment card;, and for cubbing (training the young hounds to follow the scent and hunt with the pack...