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...Camelot. Worthwhile for its stylish sets, several fine songs, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews...
Music from Camelot (Andre Previn; Columbia). Backed by bass and drums, Pianist-Composer-Arranger Previn works his own Merlinesque magic on the world of Lerner and Loewe. As always happens when Previn sets his hand to it, the score emerges sounding as if it were written from the beginning to the measure of Previn's nervously elegant style. For those who prefer their scores straight, the Camelot Original Cast Album (Columbia) presents Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and a standard pit orchestra in the show's highly engaging tunes; one in particular, Follow Me, is heard here far more...
...best of the home-grown dramas include the tender, poetic family chronicle, All the Way Home, and Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama. As for the musicals: although it is currently fashionable to dismiss it, Camelot holds many treasures that make it worth seeing; Do Re Mi survives only through the shenanigans of Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. Which leaves two of the year's least pretentious works but also its zingiest -Carol Channing's satirical revue, Show Girl, and An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine...
...Camelot-on-Hudson. To Fowler, the Manhattan of his day was Camelot, and his fellow newsmen-Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Arthur Brisbane-were knights of the round table, which was usually a bar. Fowler's personal idol and friend was Alfred Damon Runyon. Despite his Broadway camaraderie, Runyon was a brooding, lonely man, and there were distinct traces of rube in his makeup. He believed that to count as a New York know-it-all, he had to unearth a champion heavyweight. Over the years he maintained a series of fighters who ate like lions and fought...
...Douce. The domestic dramas include the tender, poetic family chronicle, All the Way Home; Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama; and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively but somehow disappointing comedy-lecture on marital success. Among the musicals: although it is currently fashionable to dismiss it, Camelot holds many treasures that make it worth seeing; Do Re Mi, a Runyonesque piece, is nearly salvaged by the antics of Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. And two of the season's smallest-scale efforts are also its sprightliest-Carol Channing's satirical revue, Show Girl...