Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story line worth the name, spotty lyrics (by Alan Lutkus) and book (by Peter Bluestone), and several indescribably dull moments. But it also has a good score (by Walter Moses), some remarkable choreography (by Bob Norris, who also directs admirably), and a number of very funny sight gags. This is sufficient to make Pro and Con what it is designed to be--a very pleasant evening in the theatre...
Nick Adams, as the police lieutenant, has a good voice, but he wages a hopeless battle with the love songs. Philip Lund, as the madam, and K. C. Sulkin, as the hoodlum boss, are competent, but Lund in particular suffers from too much dull straight material. Dick Tucker has an effective blues number in the beat coffeehouse scene that closes the first...
...when it is trying to be serious, is just dull, but enough of the music and humor hit the mark to make it an extremely entertaining production. And that is all that most people ask from a Pudding show...
...profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth act aria D'amor sull'ali rosee a dramatic as well as a technical triumph. It was perhaps the most wildly applauded moment of the present Met season-a season made somewhat lackluster by several dull, slack productions but rendered memorable by what seemed like a new age of brilliant singers, most notably Birgit Nilsson, triumphant in Turandot, and Soprano Price herself...
...have characters, but rather attitudes, few actions of the body, but many intricate actions of the soul. This sort of mental horseplay does not necessarily doom a literary effort, but in Mr. Cole's case the tone is annoyingly didactic, the intention overly profound--and the results predictably dull...