Word: greenwillow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than David Merrick, who then, as now, conceived of musicals as a kind of vaudeville show tailored for big stars. In Take Me Along's case, Merrick's original choice of a star was Anthony Perkins (in the role of Richard). Perkins, however, took another offer (Frank Loesser's Greenwillow), and Jackie Gleason was hired to star instead, in the role...
...Greenwillow (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Lesser Samuels and Mr. Loesser; based on B. J. Chute's novel) takes the composer of Guys and Dolls for a long ride-from a tough Manhattan of floating crap games to a quaint folk region of scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call...
...Greenwillow's is a world, in short, where every day seems like Arbor Day and every night like Halloween, inhabited by people who are most often seen on calendars. Whatever the charm of Greenwillow the novel, the play is as vague in its storytelling as in its geography. It offers lovers but no proper love story, devils but no improper temptations, and the sort of artificially flavored language that tries to be folk poetry but turns out as horrible prose. Doubtless some people will think it delightful, but anyone with memories of a J. M. Synge must find...
...Greenwillow, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, is based on B. J. Chute's novel about a family that suffers from wanderlust. Four seasons ago, Loesser converted Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted into The Most Happy Fella. The present show, starring Tony Perkins in pursuit of Zeme North was described by the Philadelphia Bulletin's Ernie Schier as "a collection of bits and pieces" and "unwieldy." (March...