Word: comden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aisle (music by Jule Styne; lyrics and sketches by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; produced by Arthur Lesser) can smile gratefully at its stars, Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. Lahr remains among the best of the oldtime funnymen, and there are virtually no new ones. He has a nice comic face, he can make nice comic faces. He has a showman's sixth sense; his antics have authority. Best of all, he can lose his head splendidly when all about him are stodgily keeping theirs. As Captain Universe, leading the Space Patrol in a piece of stupendous interplanetary science fiction...
Billion Dollar Baby (books & lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Morton Gould; produced by Paul Feigay & Oliver Smith) takes a cockeyed look, through purple-colored glasses, at the fantastic '20s. In a swirl of burlesque it lurches through speakeasies, totters through dance marathons, plugs racketeers, pummels gold diggers, plays hob with billionaires. Almost all of it is bold and un-Broadwayish, and bits and pieces of it are delightful. But as a whole, it doesn't quite come...
...Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written a book, it says on the program, but it doesn't amount to much. The "story" is about a Staten Island flapper who wanted to marry money and did, after losing a Miss America beauty contest, visting a speak on the arm of a fated gunman, eluding a greasy gin-mill manager, falling in love with another gunman, jilting a dance-marathon winner, and double-crossing the favored trigger...
...Town (book and lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less...
...Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written dialogue that is hurdly above average and often decidedly trite, but they redeem themselves in the delightfully daft lyrics of the hit number, "I Get Carried Away...