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Sondheim's gorgeous all-waltz score is his most openly emotional, but it is not heard here to maximum effect. Some of the best numbers (e.g., The Miller's Son) have been dropped, others have been reworked, and most of the rest (notably Taylor's Send in the Clowns) are ineptly performed. The only song that retains its full stage power is A Weekend in the Country, in which music and lyrics merge ingeniously to sum up at least five of the story's subplots and seven of its characters at once. Even in the context...
...just pulled out all these gorgeous things from Paraphernalia, with the price tags still on them, and loaned them...
...time is the early '50s. when the sport was a TV staple and a man with an arresting gimmick could become a star. Andy flops as a clean-cut hero and a rough-cut villain (in Nazi helmet and Hitler mustache), then finally reaches apotheosis as a Gorgeous George type - golden curls, campy cape, mincing manner...
...pilfer fragments of neutron-bomb jokes from my good friend Shecky Green, but this week, it's for a good reason. Shecky and I were vacationing together last week (the Concord was never so supersonic...), and one night in the dining hall, as the waiter was bringing around those gorgeous little kreplachs, Shecky mounted the table and spontaneously burst into a series of his best jokes ever. Then, faster than you could say, "My mother-in-law is so annoying that..," he'd launched into an evocative Totie Fields imitation, and the dining room crowd--all of whom had long...
...from high school," he says-and soon after Roller's Dremiere in 1975 he was receiving 5,000 fan letters a week. "Before Kotter," says Lois Zetter, who works on his music deals, 'John was merely lovable, someone you wanted to hug. After Kotter he suddenly became gorgeous and sexy...