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...intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
Four of the shows are badly acted. The single exception here is "Where Do We Go From Here," which involves something including Carmen Miranda, sabotage, stolen records, and the Articles of War. The play was made amusing and worthwhile by the double-talking sergeant reading the articles of war ("Article I--Flibbergabbit on the scrannifornia with homerjohnny fidledudeed on government satchelfradd--the penalty is death!"), and an excellent comic as the supposed saboteur who becomes the recipient of a kiss from a hairy-chested Carmen Miranda...
...production, Carmen Jones is drenched with light and smeared with color, yet lean and swift-moving. Its choreography (arranged by Eugene Loring) sometimes falters, but at its best-in the hot dancing at the night spot-it is sensational. Its singing, lightweight by operatic standards, is attractive for Broadway. (To preserve voices and play the roles on alternate nights, there are two Carmens, two Joes, two Cindy Lous.) The acting is remarkably ingratiating for performers who were dug up from nowhere and tossed upon a stage. One of the Carmens (Muriel Smith) used to clean film in Philadelphia, while...
...hint of Spain, no highfalutin of opera, clings to these people. Oscar Hammerstein's lively book uses straight Negro idiom, finds room-and here Carmen Jones strikes out boldly for itself-for a pulsating Negro gaiety. Not into Lillas Pastia's dim tavern, but into a packed and glittering night spot, does Husky Miller make his first royal entrance. Instead of hiding out in a smugglers' den, the Carmen Jones crowd cavort and click their heels at a swanky Negro country club...
Hammerstein's lyrics are as right and renovating as his book. The seductive Seguidilla becomes Dere's a Café on de Corner; the Quintet turns into Whizzin' Away Along de Track. Carmen gets a load of Joe, and her famed flirtatious Habanera becomes Dat's Love...