Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty soon Cowpoke Clark is talking about a little vine-covered 'dobe on Prairie Dog Creek, but Jane won't hear of such "dirty, mangy, sod-bustin' livin'." She shoots straight: "Ah dream BIG." Clark fires back: "Ah dream SMAWWLLL." She takes up her quilt and walks. Enter the villain (Robert Ryan), who also dreams big. Ryan offers Jane the territory of Montana if she will let him assume her burden of quilt. She agrees, and he dresses her up like a real front-tier belle, but even as she is sprayed with Paris perfume, Jane...
...whirling combination of lilting tunes, vagabonds, sentiment, and flop-house philosophy makes Pipe Dream one of the year's top musicals. It's almost as if Rogers and Hammerstein conspired to confuse the audience, making it nearly impossible to pick one song over another to hum after the show. If you prefer catchy melodies, they are there; if you want the "Some Enchanted Evening" type, they are there too. Although many of the songs could reach the Hit Parade on their own merit, each is smoothly slipped into the stage antics of the Cannery Row characters, taken from Steinbeck...
Before the company goes to New York there will probably be minor changes in the book; sharpening the slowly paced scenes at the end of Act One would be helpful. But there is no Pipe Dream about its success...
...dream of an undergraduate parliament, patterned after the Oxford Union, has been a frequent fantasy which has always ended as a twisted nightmare of the original model. The glamorous expectations about a "Parliament" created much of the disappointment. Everyone knows Parliamentary Members can be witty and whimsical; student parliaments here were generally serious at best, down-right silly at worst. But these organizations did not fold for lack of wit although, admittedly, it helped. The last group, the ill-fated Athenaeum, is a case in point and an excellent guide to bobbles that the new "political club forum" might well...
...plot. The brightest of the new situation shows is You'll Never Get Rich, starring Funnyman Phil Silvers as an Army top sergeant with a heart of solid larceny. Silvers makes life in the armed forces seem like a rainbow-colored version of a goldbricker's dream...