Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Failing to come up with some crucially needed upsets, the Harvard varsity swimmers lost to perennially-strong Princeton, 68-45, at the IAB Saturday...
...long as she is in the first Charity has a gutsy sense of realism equal to that of West Side Story or Cabaret. A number early in the picture shows the dance-hall ladies, drenched in make-up and neon light, as they coldly ask each "big spender" to come on to the dance floor for "fun, laughs, and a good time." The song, full of cynical Dorothy Fields lyric, brings home in nightmarish tones that world where money turns sex into the sweaty throbbing of the mindless body...
Shirley MacLaine, alternately smiling and crying as her hopes build and collapse, gives her Charity a pathetic luminescence that perhaps no other singer-dancer-come-dienne could provide. In contrast, Chita Rivera and Paula Kelly offer thoughtful portrayals of Charity's realistic and beaten-down fellow workers...
...then, the opening-night version of the show was almost half gone. Some of the new material, introduced since the premiere, has even turned out to be quite funny--especial a bit in which an emancipated nun feverishly embraced her lover, suddenly paused, and then panicked, "Has the angel come? Am I with child?" Yet, the total effect of all the sketches remained erratic. One element of the show, the Lenny Bruce ballet, for example, aimed at slightly obscene visual non-sequiturs. On a more abstract level, Leven had inserted stylized mood scenes on topics like the mechanization of love...
...local people to feel free to submit their own ideas for sketches. He had already extended an invitation to the Writers and Artists Registry for unsolicited material--comedy routines, paintings, photos, and poetry. He claimed to have "a tremendous amount of respect for the area. I want people to come and, if they don't like what they see, I hope they can tell us about it." And, if the show had established itself, it might just have become a partial outlet for some of Cambridge's creativity...