Word: fabray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts dreamed up by screenwriters Comden and Green, Oscar Levant and Nannette Fabray star as two writers who carry on like--who else? Comden and Green...
...courtiers are saved from an overly grand view by those same jets that bring them so swiftly. They soon are dumped back into the realities of Detroit and New York. But the memories mingle and linger: supreme of pheasant smitane, Rockefeller, Harriman, Dillon, chestnut mousse, Bob Stack, Nanette Fabray, De La Renta, Alsop, filet of salmon in aspic, Cronkite, Swearingen, Humphrey, Schramsberg blanc de noir, Auchincloss. Watching from the dim corners of the old Decatur House on Lafayette Square, where the ladies went for tea, or inside the stately Anderson House, where Sadat the next day returned the White House...
...Band Wagon. One of the best musicals to come out of the tuneful fifties, although there is not enough Fred Astaire in it. Mr. Fred is an aging hoofer who is persuaded to come back to co-star with Cyd Charisse in her stage debut. Nanette Fabray is completely obnoxious, but the irascible Oscar Levant consistently manages to upstage her. The highlight is a dance number with Astaire as a private eye and Charisse as the sleazy streetwalker in distress. Lots of good songs, and a plot so old that you just have to love it. Channel...
...Hard Feelings. Except on the part of the audience. With Eddie Albert and Nanette Fabray, at the Colonial Theater. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Fun and games in a lunatic asylum. From Ken Kesey's novel, and reportedly very good. At the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., Boston...
...material is doubly disappointing because Albert and Fabray, both professionals of considerable experience, seem fully aware that the Boston run is only a preview before the real opening in New York in April. They put little effort into their performances. A paying audience deserves more from professionals anywhere...