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AUTHORS: MUSIC BY JERRY BOCK; LYRICS BY SHELDON HARNICK; BOOK BY JOE MASTEROFF...
...ever there was a play that could "touch" anyone, it is The Apple Tree. Director Scott Schwartz interprets Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock's version of the Biblical story of the first man and woman so that it becomes a sensuous and visually stimulating production...
...characters that Harnick and Bock have created condone social stereotypes of men and women: Eve is interested in her gardening, while Adam, with echoes of My Fair Lady's Henry Higgins, thinks Eve's emotions are "sentimental hogwash...
...much of Sesame Street, left a trove of musicals-in-the-making at his death in 1989. This remake of the Frank Capra-Jimmy Stewart film classic It's a Wonderful Life, at Washington's Arena Stage, is as sweet and gosh-darn inspirational as the original. But Sheldon Harnick's book and, especially, lyrics wobble embarrassingly in tone, and the storytelling transition from screen to stage is much less than magical...
...happens to be just right for this part. Rita Moreno is an animated delight as the amorous prey of a slickly narcissistic cad (Laurence Guittard). and George Rose lends his customary authoritative presence to the role of the autocratic shop owner with a heart of fudge. As for Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, they serve playgoers a song feast in which music is indeed the food of love. T.E.K...