Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less youthful shows...
...torchy as the next fellow's, and such ditties as Come Up To My Place and You Got Me are straight Main Stem-and with delightfully tough Nancy Walker to bawl them out, they are showstoppers as well. Jerome Robbin's dances have humor and verve, and charming Sono Osato to gladden them. Best of all, On the Town has the oldtime touch it needs: under George Abbott's direction, youth has made hay without going haywire, and a lot of slightly off-Broadway talent has been given a sharp Broadway spin...
...such as an immigrant returned to his homeland might tell to his wondering grandchildren. Few books have ever made the U.S. seem so exotic. The stories were written by Helen Papashvily, George's American-born wife, exactly as he told them, with his florid language and his owlish humor carefully preserved...
...recording the faces of newly wakened men as they hear their assignment, or of worn-out men telling precisely how they carried it out. The sound track drinks in the clumsy quips, the murmurs of assent or pleasure, the grain of each man's character and dialect and humor and attitude as he replies to his questioner. Skillfully cut, this splendid material is wisely allowed to dominate with its own instructive image and sound the neutral, informative voice of the commentator...
...George Gallup in the popular imagination: he's not at all the stuffed-shirt as represented in "Heavenly Days," and he doesn't go around looking for the "Average American"--he leaves that to Crockett Johnson's Mr. O'Mally, who is considerably more mature in his humor than Fibber McGee of Wistful Vista...