Word: fella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway biggies are here: Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Jelly's Last Jam, The Most Happy Fella, Five Guys Named Moe, The Will Rogers Follies, The Secret Garden, Once on This Island, Grand Hotel and, in an earlier gestation, Falsettos. The ardent browser will find off-Broadway hits (Song of Singapore) and fizzles (Stephen Sondheim's Assassins) and even the season's notorious flops on Broadway (Nick & Nora) and off (Eating Raoul). If Moose Murders had been a musical, someone would now be recording...
...Hirsch; Alan Alda; Jane Alexander; Raul Julia; Gregory Hines. It has been a season of bountiful musicals -- Crazy for You for Gershwin nostalgia, Jelly's Last Jam for show-business angst and racial relevance, Falsettos for AIDS poignancy and artistic perfection, Man of La Mancha and The Most Happy Fella for old times' sake...
...week before Crazy for You, which is touting itself as a new musical for awards purposes but is in fact a reworking of the theme and score of the Gershwins' 1930 Girl Crazy, Broadway was graced by a straightforward revival of 1956's The Most Happy Fella. By the end of April, those shows are to be joined by Man of La Mancha (1965) and Guys and Dolls (1950), and a belated transfer of the off-Broadway hits March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), now paired in a single evening. In addition are three "new" musicals recycling songs...
...team so impressive that before the first preview, a year-long national tour starting in September had already been booked around the U.S. But the $5.5 million staging of composer-lyricist Frank Loesser's comic gem will be hard pressed to equal the emotional impact of his Most Happy Fella, telling of an inept but earnest quest for love by a hulking, homely immigrant farmer in California's Napa Valley. The book, also by Loesser, is intermittently burdened with the same irritating cuteness and insincerity that lumbers Crazy for You and so many others of its ilk. The score...
...races (the famous downhill, sensationalized by national television, is not run due to unkind insurance premiums. Nordic jumping has fallen to the same fate). Seniors Rana Dershowitz and Andrew "The Alien" Holleman captain a strong alpine contingency. John Laserte returns from Vermont to coach for yet another year (the fella just won't go away) and Johnathan L. Shefftz KSG '92 stands close by his side, serving as assistant coach...