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What a Way to Go! is five or six big, splashy movies rolled into none. Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a pair of permanently show-struck Broadway librettists, it sets out to satirize the very things it seems head over heels in love with: moom pitchers and the cult of "success-money-success." Shirley MacLaine plays a freckle-faced Ohio gamine whose pastel American Dream is marred by the Midas touch. She wants only "a simple life with one man to love." But the men she marries have a way of getting rich quick, leaving her in widow...
...Civil War, and the show centers around a Union soldier and the daughter of a Hungarian officer, garrisoned in St. Louis in 1861 (spring). Another original musical is A Girl to Remember, starring Carol Burnett as a Hollywood script girl in the '30s, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
Capable Scripters Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the book and lyrics, but apparently their thinkwell ran dry. The initial notion sounds funny: to explore the antics of a special tribe of New Yorkers who shun the workaday rat race by turning into moles. They doze at Grand Central, sleep on subways, and even rest in the Egyptian sarcophagi at the Metropolitan Museum. They are not exactly bums, but grey flannel grifters who sponge off friends, walk dogs, and ring Christmas bells as charity Santas...
SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING, a new musical comedy by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, at the Colonial...
...America." with a biracial cast of 45. Brown held a backers' audition for his musical before the entire U.S. on TV's Today show, got so many pledges that he sent back a surplus $160,000 to would-be investors (November). The newest collaboration of Betty Comden and Adolf Green (with music by Jule Styne) is Subways Are for Sleeping, starring Charlie Chaplin's second son, Sydney...