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...used to be; it's just our vision of him," smiled Composer Richard Rodgers, 74, considering the subject of his new Broadway musical Rex. Based on the life of Henry VIII and scheduled to open in April, the play will feature music by Rodgers, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick (who wrote Fiddler on the Roof) and British Actor Nicol Williamson as Henry. Despite his past successes (The King and I, Carousel, Pal Joey), the old pro composer faces some tough competition from two other Broadway veterans. As Rodgers put the finishing touches to his score last week, Lyricist Alan...
...first, Adam didn't really like Eve, but by the end of the skit they are proclaiming their undying love to each other. They didn't really leave paradise, because they still had each other, and that, you see, is paradise. Unfortunately, Bock and Harnick insist upon reiterating this devastating insight three times in songs so soggy with sentimentality you could dunk your donuts in them...
With music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the show is full of bits and pieces of waltzes, rhapsodies and tangoes and about as far away from typical Broadway fare as its setting in the Budapest of the 1930s. Eschewing razzmatazz show-stoppers, She Loves Me depends instead on a small ensemble and a collection of melodies that drift through the air--often in two and three-part combinations--as if they are the essences of the perfumes that line the walls of the story-book shop in which the action takes place. Director Josh Rubins has done...
...Loves Me musical by Bock and Harnick. Agassiz Theatre. 8:30, April 13, $3-2. April...
...became quite good at spotting a dud song -or so he thought. "Like the time these two guys in the cubicle next to me kept beating out those old-fashioned Jewish tunes. Man, I knew for sure they weren't going anywhere." The two guys were Bock and Harnick, and the Jewish songs eventually evolved into Fiddler on the Roof. Diamond doesn't make that kind of mistake any more...