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...COWARD...
...taint of reality sullies Noël Coward. In his plays and musicals, no man toils, no woman spins and no child is seen, let alone heard. There are no families, only menages of bright, brittle and bizarre people for whom life is one long marvelous party. His is a hermetic world sealed against headlines, problems and pain, and most of all against boredom, which to Coward is the eighth deadly...
...stage is the only Eden that Coward knows about or cares about, and for half a century he has communicated his blissful delight with it. And that's what this new revue-styled evening of songs and patter off Broadway is-a blissful delight. There is the familiar and engaging Coward of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and I'll Follow My Secret Heart. These songs seem always to have existed, yet their sentiments are fresh as first love. The show also contains less familiar Coward, like...
...MIDGE DECTER 188 pages. Coward, McCann...
...seasoned troupers, Richardson and Ashcroft. The nagging question remains: Why do even the finest of British actors bother with this sort of stuff? Can one imagine a Herbert von Karajan conducting No, No, Nanette? COWARDY CUSTARD Age has not withered or custom staled the tunes and lyrics of Noel Coward. This animated musical anthology has been culled from a half-century of his songs and patter. For Coward fanciers, a substantial cult, the only word for the evening is enchanting. Retrospectively, one can see that Coward the lyricist has been the slyly sophisticated offspring of W.S. Gilbert. Satirically, he could...