Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven Beauties at 1, 4:35, and 8:15, and The Garden of the Finzi-Contini...
Tuesday, July 12, at 8 p.m., Emerson, Lake, and Palmer will bring their unique brand of hyper-amplified neo-classical schlock to the Boston Garden. Tickets are $7.50 and $8.50, available at the Garden Box Office, Ticketron, the Out-of-Town Newsstand, and Strawberries, which is located right here in Harvard Square...
...plot--such as it is--in which the signing-waitress in her father's Hoboken beer-garden, on losing her boyfriend, essays the New York stage and becomes a celebrity, is based to a considerable degree on the actual life of the show's star, Helen Morgan (1900-41), who told Kern and Hammerstein about her early years as a chanteuse in a German-style beer-garden named Adeline's. (A film biography of Morgan's life was made in 1957, starring Ann Blyth and Paul Newman...
...Time in the Old Town Tonight." There is also, for the piccolo-playing Dorothy, a punningly titled "Play Us a Polka, Dot," and, farther on, an example of the old unaccompanied barbershop quartet (actually a quintet here), "Pretty Jennie Lee." The opening scene, in proprietor Schmidt's beer-garden, provides the endearing folkish song "'Twas Not So Long Ago," which points to Schmidt's immigrant origins by being sung first in German by him and then in English by his daughter Addie; and this song easily survives its three reprises in later scenes...
...most real composers) he isn't much of a singer. Russ Beasley is stiff as Sam Herzig, a producer, but he looks like any producer's dream of a handsome, mustachioed matinee idol. And Carl Nicholas brings a welcome touch of the old country to the German-born beer-garden owner...