Word: comden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peter Pan (by James M. Barrie; music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne; lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and Betty Comden and Adolph Green) was bound to become a musical in time-and doubtless in time for Mary Martin to play Peter. She looks as boyish as can be expected of any grownup of the opposite sex. She is hard to beat at singing, she can dance, she can duel with Captain Hook; and when she flies through the air, she races and soars and dips like some Peter Pan-American...
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie; music & lyrics by Mark Charlop, Carolyn Leigh, Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis, Betty Comden and Adolph Green), which played this summer in San Francisco with Mary Martin, opens on Broadway Oct. 20, with Dancer-Choreographer Jerome (On the Town) Robbins directing...
...pleasant change from the trite insipidity of current show tunes. "Wrong Note Rag" piques the ear with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college athlete, the eloquent stupidity of Bernstein's lumbering rhythm is as comic as the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. While the intricacy of some of his music challenges both the lyricist and the singer's enunciation, Bernstein can write simple and memorable melodies. Wonderful Town has at least two songs hard to forget--"A Little Bit of Love" and "A Quiet Girl," but Bernstein's score will...
Singing in the Rain (MGM) reunites Dancing Star Gene Kelly and Producer Arthur Freed of the Academy Award-winning An American in Paris with a screenplay by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, who wrote Kelly's highly successful On the Town. The result, though pretty and tuneful, is not so opulent as the first, nor so inventive as the second...
...Lahr and Miss Gray can smile a trifle sadly at Two on the Aisle. Its skits are the show's main virtue, and even some of them should work shorter hours. But Sketch Writers Comden & Green (On the Town) have really satiric minds, and at their best are very funny. Elliott Reid is funny, too, in a take-off of the Kefauver committee hearings. The music is all too thin, however; the dances are dullish, the production numbers mostly colorless. But thanks to its stars, a rather negligible revue still manages to be a very pleasant evening...