Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperation of "Big Spender" never disappears from Charity entirely, and that is all in its favor. (Some time later, when Charity and her two cohorts sing a fiery plea for a better life on the Fan-Dango rooftop, director-choreographer Bob Fosse frames it with the "Spender" chorus line, for chilling results.) Yet some of the time--too much of the time--Charity seems hopelessly stuck in the mire of the heroine's never-never land...
...amplified sound of the incongruous pop-rock score may reach the moon ahead of the astronauts. The chorus boys' codpieces are ample, but they scarcely camouflage the empty boisterousness of both dance and bawdry...
...open," the producers promised. TherE they closed it by hiring as host Disney Star Dean Jones (That Darn Cat), and by laying on a premiere as topical as Early Berle, as substantial as tapioca. They struck body blows at Shirley Tern ple movies and George M. Cohan musicals. A chorus boy wore a huge papier-mache Richard Nixon head. Mid-finale, Jones apologized "if we've offended anybody," and the cast broke into This Land Is My Land. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (CBS) is a revival of the summer-substitute show starring Citybilly Singei Campbell (TIME...
Simplicity, spareness and clarity are the order of the evening, and that alone makes the show a treat by contrast to most other Broadway musicals. There is no piston-pumping chorus testing the floorboards in Celebration, only a small gentle band of masked dancers decked in the costumes and spirit of a carnival. The straight melodic line and unpretentiously apt lyrics of the songs appeal to the ear without assaulting it. Celebration is intimate and beguiling and it has a distinctive personality rather than a powerhouse complex. It is one of those good things that come in small packages...
...Buzz Kulik shot the film entirely in the Arizona State Prison, more for the sake of novelty than authenticity. He never once manages to capture the claustrophobic frustration of prison life. Although Riot aspires to be reformist social criticism, it is about as effective-and moving-as a convict chorus of Don't Fence...