Word: fandango
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...Bernard Middleton, and tenaciously by a barbaric Russian, Count Kovanski. Natalia Solario does not stoop to conquer. Yet her adroitly detached existence ends abruptly one evening when brother Eugene returns, penniless and impenitent, from his twelve-year exile. At this point, Madame Solario shifts from waltz time to offbeat fandango...
...possible a diversity of insights into the Comédie's methods of production. If much is traditional and even ritualistic, very little seems petrified. In view of interspersed high slapstick of dancing and singing and fencing masters, of ostentatious banquet scenes and staircase serenades, of a Turkish fandango suggesting fraternal-order shenanigans. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme becomes a varied though lengthy evening. Despite its measure of real low comedy, it retains a kind of ballet air. There is something ceremonious as well as earthy in its laughter, and a pinch of period charm in all its horseplay...
...best of the good things- a round song called The Story of Alice-is done with the high-styled nonsensicality of a good British revue number. There is some of the same appeal in a song-and-dance fandango called Gruntled: the gimmick of the lyrics (ept, kempt, scrutable) is pretty old hat, but the general air and the wacky ballroom dancing are gay Among the sketches, there is a funny take-off of the current movie Marty and a fairly funny take-off of matinee ladies Two or three other skits, on such themes as Tennessee Williams and marriage...
There are tumultuous sequences as Olivier, after a wild fandango with the ladies of the tavern, is betrayed to the police and, perched on a coffin atop a cart, rides through a festive crowd to the gallows. Scene after scene is dressed up in resplendent Technicolored sets and costumes...
Last week's communal wingding was staged solely to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the introduction to Tehuantepec of La Sandunga, originally a Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople, bearing pinewood torches, paraded, fired Roman candles and danced. Next morning, with hardly more than a pause for some fiery 120-proof mescal (drunk with powdered cactus-worm salt for additional flavor), a new parade started...