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...family gatherings the girls would render old songs in a saucy fashion, occasionally accompanied on the tenor guitar by their doting uncle. Now Beth Corliss is Beth Silvestri, married to an Olympic yachtsman and living in San Francisco. The girl with three sisters now has three daughters: Allie, 9, Diana, 7, and Catherine, 4. Two weeks ago, they dropped by our Lower Manhattan loft...
...pouring that Wednesday, but nothing could dampen the spirits of Beth and her brood. When we asked if by any chance the girls could perform a number, they quickly assumed their places. Allie and Diana conferred ?backstage? as Catherine warmed up the audience of three. When there was a momentary delay, the four-year-old announced, ?We will now have a brief intermission.? The soubrettes then materialized, to sing - not an Alicia Keys or Gretchen Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity...
...Diana ran through the vamp (?I know a bundle of humanity / She?s about so high / I?m nearly driven to insanity / When she passes by?), adding the appropriate gestures of a hand measuring the air, for height, and a clockwise motion to the head, for insanity. Then she launched into the chorus (?I?m young and healthy / And you?ve got charms / It would really be a sin / Not to have you in my arms?), plighting her troth, really pitching it, with a tenor?s full faux fervor. Allie took the second verse (?I?m young and healthy...
...Allie and Diana?s duet gave Mary a brainstorm: let?s take the kids to see ?42nd Street? (a road-show company of which Beth had taken the kids to in San Francisco) on 42nd Street. We had less than an hour to don our rain-gear, take a subway uptown and hope tickets were still available for the 8 o?clock performance. The deluge outside only heightened our giddy mood; some of us sang ?Singin? in the Rain? while others whirled, Gene Kelly-style, around lampposts. We arrived at the Ford Theatre and snapped up three pairs of seats...
...elder two girls knew the show by heart. As the curtain rose slightly, revealing three dozen pairs of shapely legs and happy feet, Diana whispered to Mary, ?Julian Marsh is putting on a show!? - the play?s first line. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors? gestures. At intermission, Diana strode into the aisle and did an expert tap routine - no small accomplishment, considering that she was barefoot. The theatergoers applauded her as vigorously as Mary and I had at home. A star was born...