Word: hotcha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best a routine brightness, and a score that sometimes lacks lilt even where it seems reminiscent. There is just one really good song, Mutual Admiration Society, and one lively ditty, Every One Who's "Who's Who." The dancing, except for a tango number, suggests the hotcha of a generation ago. The romantic lead, Cinemactor Fernando Lamas, has a voice and good looks; the Jo Mielziner sets have lightness and good looks; but the show, all too often, leaves Ethel a forsaken Merman...
...Heaven does have some reasonably lively dancing and some agreeable sentimental tunes. But it lacks production excitement: Hollywood's Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban make love seem pleasantly unmemorable, and no one makes sin very thrilling. Sin, in fact, is a good deal more lavendered than scarlet -the hotcha is mostly oo-la-la, the Paris mostly an old-fashioned Gay Paree. The last show of the season, Seventh Heaven might have wound up any season for the past 20 years...
...snatches and brightly mocking ditties. John Latouche's words are for the most part gay, ingenious and witty. There are weak spots. The show at times is a bit fancy, at others a bit cute; and the Iliad yields less rewarding home-town stuff than the Odyssey does hotcha...