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...Jacques Brel opens with a number called "Marathon" that traces five decades of modern European history and decides man is trapped on an ever-accelerating, never-ending treadmill; in a later song, "Carousel," the same theme is repeated. Of course, Burt Bacharach had Dionne Warwick say, the same thing in his theme song for Valley of the Dolls, and, for me at least, just as persuasively, but then of course Bacharach can't be ranked a "poet" alongside Mr. Brel. (And although I would hate to live through a night of Burt Bacharach Is Alive and Well and Living...
...words are not sung; they seem to float from her throat. The uptempo songs could survive almost any rendition, but when Elly sings them, she charges them with alternating currents of energy and melancholia. She does not interpret the songs, she becomes their owner-and their tenant. In Carousel, she sings in a lazy, wheeling style-until suddenly the merry-go-round lurches out of control. The carousel spins elliptically, dangerously, until the singer reaches an unbearable frenzy -and shatters. Audiences that witness such tours de force know what it must have been like in the '30s, when...
Died. Alfred Newman, 68, Academy Award-winning Hollywood composer and conductor; of emphysema; in Hollywood. "If I want to write great music," Newman once said, "I have no right being here." Perhaps true, but he was honored with eight Oscars and 45 nominations for orchestrating such films as Carousel, Camelot and The King and I; on his own he scored such hits as Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Robe and How the West...
Airlines officials like to farm out at least a little of the blame. "When 20 grey Samsonite bags are sitting on a delivery carousel," says a TWA man, "it is quite conceivable that Jane Roe is going to pick up John Doe's bag. And if she does not, there could always be some con man waiting around who will...
ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATER (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical Carousel, specially adapted for TV, features Robert Goulet as Carnival Barker Billy Bigelow and such brass ring-adingers as If I Loved You and June Is Bustin' Out All Over...