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...comedy interpolations in the South Shore production often prove humorous and tasteful, such as jailhouse monologue of Frosch, played broadly but brilliantly by Bernie West. Adele's embarrassingly inept behavior at the ball justifies itself by her status. But the folksy, hail-fellow-well met lyrics of Howard Dietz have no business being used in any production of Die Fledermaus which attempts to capture the flavor of the original or to offer any amount of the necessary stylization...
...Dietz's translation, which the program asserts is the official Metropolitan opera translation, the brother-sister ensemblebecomes "Happy Days"-no longer the intricate abandonment of social decorum for an evening of fun, but a sentimental lyric saved from being maudlin only by the power of the music. The lyrics of the Champagne Song come out "Then Up with the Wine," and the veryprecise "Meinherr marquis" is translated "Look Me Over Once." Both the alternate Metropolitan Opera translation and the new Sadler's Wells translation by Christopher Hassell are preferable to the Dietz translation, and it is this fault that most...
...already said that Pop is great, but I've got to say it again. George Engel has an inimitable senile cackle. And I should mention the frightening Fulton Lewis--loving boss (Sheldon Dietz), the scratchy Poopsie (Carol Derris), the voluptuous Mae (Joan Burke), and the cigar-chomping, philandering Prez (Jim Field). What else? Oh yes, a fine, full sized (for once) orchestra, led capably by David Klausner. And that's about the size...
...Life (book by Fay and Michael Kanin; music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz) is one of those musicals that seem to spring from back numbers of the National Geographic. It is full of scenic wonders-a Carlsbad spa with fountains spouting real water, a Christmas vision of Old Vienna filigreed in confectioner's icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than...
...London's Drury Lane Theater, becomes a musical starring Alfred Drake (Nov. 2). The Affairs of Anatol, Arthur Schnitzler's sweet-cynical, turn-of-the-century portrait of a world-weary Viennese Don Juan, inspires The Gay Life, with music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz (Nov. 18). The integrated talents of Negro Oscar Brown Jr. have resulted in the book, lyrics and music of Kicks & Co., described as "a cynically comic portrayal of America." with a biracial cast of 45. Brown held a backers' audition for his musical before the entire...