Word: cole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a snob on the half-shell could only have been dredged by a greatly gifted hand. Yet Cole Porter's Tale of the Oyster has never been published. Nor, until now, has it ever been recorded. It is only remembered by those Broadway theatergoers who, in 1929, happened to see Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen...
...this month any record buyer can savor it in a new album called "Cole Porter Revisited." It has been assembled by Ben Bagley, an off-Broadway producer (the Shoestring revues) who has unearthed eleven Porter songs that have been hitherto unrecorded, plus three recorded only on now-unavailable 78 r.p.m. Some were cut from shows while they were still on the road. Others were never published at all, or if they were, the lyrics were often changed. In all cases, Bagley has revived the originals. One song from 1939's DuBarry Was a Lady, for example, illustrates just what...
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Elizabeth Cole, as Mistress Millamant, has at least a perfect set of facial expressions. But on an area stage especially, an actress needs to express her character with her voice as well. Whenever Miss Cole turned her back to play to another section of the theater, she seemed to step out of character. Without her smile and arching eyebrow to suggest the grand coquette, she sounded like a girl reading intriguing prose...
...scene where Millamant finally consents to marry Mirabell, for example, Miss Cole sticks to her careful articulation, and Gray to his sententions manner. Their conversation mainly concerns what limits they will put on each other's freedom: Mirabell is not to do this or that, Millamant is forswear such and such. The talk is very formal, but the two characters' emotions should be seen breaking through. Miss Cole and Gray played the scene like a pair of lawyers, however. This can only have been Mullin's idea, and I think it is an example of what his approach...