Word: cupids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...romantic comedy looks as though it would like to grow up and become a western. It has gunfights, cattle rustlers, painted women and a smoke-filled gambling hall, but all the roaring wickedness is dedicated wholeheartedly to the proposition that a feller (Keir Dullea) needs a girl (Lois Nettleton). Cupid's leathery old handmaiden is Buddy Ebsen, a family friend who holds the deed to a decrepit ranch left to Dullea by his late father, though Dullea can't claim it until he simmers down some. One morning Ebsen strides out of the privy with a Monky Ward...
Complications develop when Diedre threatens to withdraw from the production because Shakespeare's lyrics have been transformed into Rock 'n' Roll rhythms. Everything comes out happily in the end, though, when Cupid's arrows hit Cutter and Diedre...
...after 1850, and the libretto could have been improved by almost anyone with 15 minutes and a pencil. "I would look like a fool, I have never been to school" constitutes a rhyme, but it is a rhyme Menotti shares with the composer of a pop song called Stupid Cupid that was big last year...
...Loves Me is shamelessly romantic, head over heels in love with love. For the Broadway theater this is quite a switch; its musicomedy heroes and heroines of the last couple of seasons have been more in thrall to cupidity than Cupid. What makes the heart beat faster in How to Succeed is money; in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, money; in Stop the World, money; in No Strings, money and in Little Me, men with money. The theme of Oliver! is a dreadful lack of money, and in Tovarich the problem is how to get rid of boodles...
Howard Greenfield, another Aldon writer, has had 14 hits since he abandoned his job as a messenger boy four years ago and arrived as a composer with Stupid Cupid. "What we do is take an adult idea and bring it on down to the kids' level," he says. "I figure we have 2½ minutes to grab interest, change pace and paint pictures. A pop song is like a movie-it's a little escape...