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The idea has a sort of grandiose simplicity: loot the 20th century for its best popular music, thread the songs together with briskly stylish "footnotes" by Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, have them sung and danced by some of the live liest talent in New York City. The result is theatrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Looting for Fun | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

NOEL COWARD IS a master of the one-liner, scoring them so quickly and skillfully that the uproarious chaos never lets up. Just such "words! masses and masses of words" that are "such great fun to play with" make the Kirkland House production of Hayfever a delightful evening of ridiculous...

Author: By Ruth C. Streeter, | Title: Allergy | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

The first piece of good advice you will get from "veterans" is that no one needs a guidebook--it's much more fun to find your own little restaurants, to discover your own delightful little hostels, to drift where the wind blows you. But such spontaneity leaves many a bit...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: Get Going | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

This bright circus of a production began this winter at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and it is even better on Broadway. Lillian Hellman's book for the 1956 Broadway production, which had a troubled history, was scrapped in favor of a faster and frothier new version by Hugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Fun-House Voltaire | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

He quite rightly disliked the Munchkin production number and preferred Judy Garland in front of a simple backdrop singing "Over the Rainbow" and Bert Lahr chewing on his tail. The Crimson review in 1939 also went for Gone With the Wind (which has recently had a big revival) and for...

Author: By Candace Brook, | Title: Streaking Into the Past | 3/19/1974 | See Source »

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