Word: irenee
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by IRENE L.GENDZIER
The nostalgia craze is on the wane in the theater, and Irene demonstrates what happens toward the end of such entertainment boomlets. The content becomes a commodity. Even though it is supposedly set in 1919, the year in which the original musical was produced, the show is not nostalgic about...
Peddling is work, sometimes hard work, and anyone attending Irene ought to be forewarned that much of it is about as playful as a Detroit assembly line. The assembly-line touch might even be called the essence of Gower Champion. As a director, he is the relentless master of mindless...
In all fairness, the distilled silliness of the plot does not aid her. Debbie is Irene O'Dare, an Irish-American piano tuner who lives in a Manhattan Ninth Avenue flat with her widowed mother (Patsy Kelly). On a tuning job at a Long Island mansion, she meets Donald...
What with ball scenes and soirées, there are several abortive hints that Irene intended to mimic My Fair Lady, but for that one needs Shaw as well as scenery. One also needs the sly romantic sorcery of champagne and Irene is drunk on Ovaltine.