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...Carousel Theater in Framingham (TR 2-3577 or CE 5-9180) presents Shelley Berman in Where's Charley playing June 26 through July 1. Opening July 3 (through July 8) will be The Merry Widow, with Katherine Grayson. Also on the summer program are Kismet,with Howard Keel (July 10-15); Okla-homal, with John Raitt (July 17-22); The King and I, with Giesele Mac-Kenzie (July 24-29); and a review with Danny Kaye (July 31-August...
...neon Christmas lights blink on and off, radios, record players, jukeboxes sound seasonal music--from "Santa Baby" and "The Yuletide Olde Lang Syne," to "White Christmas" to "Silent Night." Nearby, on the Common, some elm trees pretend they are pine. They have been used to offset a large, carousel-like decoration which projects a variety of colors each night...
Gyrating motion is the substitute for plot or theme in the novels of Jack Kerouac, the beats' most beamish boy. His characters ride a reeling carousel equipped with stolen cars instead of painted tigers, and to the reader they are mostly blurred faces. The trouble is that when the whirling stops, the faces are still blurred and the conversation still pointless-jointless. A happy solution has occurred to Author Kerouac; he has written a volume in which the whirling is continuous and the characters negligible - in other words, a travel book...
Short & Simple. "When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high," he wrote in Carousel, "and you'll never walk alone." In a hurricane, he could unerringly find the calm center: in 1943, when wartime headlines were black with death on coral beaches, Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, and Hammerstein's words carried across the world the picture of a beautiful morning, "a bright golden haze on the meadow." Just then, many people everywhere were grateful for the reminder that such a thing existed. In a slicker mood, he could be both cute and funny...
Like Cole Porter, he could dip into a source play, borrow a line and spin a lyric. In Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the heroine wonders aloud what it would be like "if I loved you," then pauses to reflect silently. Adapting the play as Carousel, Hammerstein and Rodgers filled the pause with unadorned grace: If I loved...