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Sail Away (by Noël Coward) is carbon-copy Coward. All it needs is a carbon-copy audience from the dated musical comedies of the '20s and '30s. Sample dialogue: Englishman, in tweeds and monocle: "I've just found a cockroach in my bath." Steward: "I trust it was a British cockroach...
Sail Away, a new Coward musical sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, with superb choreography, delightful lyrics, and, fortunately, Elaine Stritch. At the Colonial Theater in Boston...
Nonetheless. Loelia. Duchess of Westminster, did. So did Judy Garland. Richard Rodgers. Howard Lindsay, Russell Grouse. Alfred Lunt. Lynn Fontanne. and so on down the gold-plated guest list at the out-of-town premiere last week of Noel Coward's new musical comedy, Sail Away. The show will open in Manhattan Oct. 3, but first Coward's story, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent...
...normal to expect that a Noel Coward show will be good. And when the curtain rises above the main hall of the Cunard steam-ship Coronia, the audience is really ready to "sail away." But for five scenes the show is stranded somewhere between the 52nd Street pier and Staten Island, and one begins to wonder whether the good ship Coronia will make it to the high seas...
...begins to clear and the boat finally pushes into open water. Nancy, the passengers, and Barnaby Slade, a student at a Pennsylvania college, dance through a delightful scene on the sun deck. "Beatnik Love Affair" is what Mr. Coward calls it, and its the first glimpse of something really up to expectations. When Barnaby and Nancy are on stage, the show comes alive, and fortunately this becomes more frequent as we sail along...