Word: irma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that introduced Brigadoon, for example, also provided Finian's Rainbow. The 1956-57 season of My Fair Lady was, in addition, the season of Bells Are Ringing, Candide, The Most Happy Fella and Li'l Abner. The 1960-61 debut season of Camelot saw as well the arrival of Irma la Douce, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Bye Bye Birdie...
...half the schedule, can be complemented by the sober heft of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral or spritzed with My Fair Lady in an ingeniously extravagant production that bejewels the stage with chandeliers, dinner jackets and hats. Oedipus can share the schedule with The Three Musketeers and Irma la Douce...
...time after middle age. She is obviously an expert on both. With witty understatement and antic plot, she shows a high social stratum at its apogee. Messages are delivered on silver salvers. A titled Englishwoman seems to have stepped from a Gershwin song, down to the exclamation, " 'S wonderful." Irma's son, rendered useless by the lack of a trust fund, laments, "My parents have never had much use for me," and wheedles a large check from a relative. Emily, with every possible creature comfort, cannot escape the persistent complaint of the dilettante: envy. Gaping at the writers headed...
Women like Emily and Irma live by shibboleths learned in early youth: sleep with no woman and damn few men; he who rides a tiger must never get off; and, as the title indicates, he who sees the last blossom on the plum tree must pick it. Shakespeare was more succinct: ripeness is all, and so it proves with Emily. After meeting Carlo's ancient father, she is momentarily ( transformed into a radiant ideal: "beautiful, charming, intelligent, loving, and the perfect future Principessa Pontevecchio." Irma is another matter: abandoned by Charlie, she becomes one more foolish dowager...
...work outside their bedroom doors. Fascism is on the rise in Italy, but to the myopic Americans, Mussolini seems only to be "looking after the poor, and keeping a strong government together; also, there was talk that he might sign a peace treaty within the year with the Vatican." Irma, heading back to the States, is consoled by expectations: "I am beginning to think 1929 is going to be a great year for us. There is nothing that makes me feel more alive than making money." With that sentence, the author sums up an epoch. In the process, she conspires...