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...performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written beautifully articulated scores for Fiorello! and Fiddler on the Roof. In The Apple Tree, the score, like the show, lacks everything, including earplugs...
...Apple Tree, the first musical directed by Mike Nichols; it is a triple bill loosely lifted from the writings of Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Cartoonist Jules Feiffer. The unifying forces are the theme "man, woman and the devil," and score and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, who did Fiddler on the Roof. A final derivative musical is Cabaret, which in earlier incarnations was Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories and the John van Druten drama I Am a Camera. With Jill Haworth in the old Julie Harris role, it is already one of the season...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (RCA Victor), recorded by the Broadway cast, has warm, old-fashioned songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Zero Mostel, as Sholom Aleichem's earthy innocent, Tevye the Dairyman, brightens whatever he sings-the reverent Sabbath Prayer, the nostalgic Sunrise, Sunset, and the wonderful intoxicated gibberish of If I Were a Rich...
...Loves Me is head over heels in love with love. The musical's springtime sweethearts are Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey, son of Raymond. Carol Haney's dance spoofs and the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score keep this romantic fairy tale spinning gaily...
...Broadway She Loves Me is head over heels in love with love. The musical's sweethearts are Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey, son of Raymond. Carol Haney's dance spoofs and the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score keep this romantic fairy tale spinning. Rattle of a Simple Man, by Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. The play is stalemated between farce and pathos, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin. Mother Courage, by Bertolt...