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...past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers & Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady, by George Lerner and Bernard Loewe...
...industry's first testing and research labs that now helps it keep its edge over competition. In the AmSeCo torture chamber, a swivel chair gets 200,000 swivels before it is pronounced serviceable, fabrics are doused with artificial perspiration, and all upholstered chairs must withstand Squirming Irma-a wooden model of a human buttocks that wriggles lifelike in the seat. Out of the lab come new products, some of which take the company beyond the glutens maximus. Items...
...Theodore Cornbleet and Dr. Irma Gigli reported that they divided 52 acne patients into two groups. One group got to eat all the sweets it wanted. The other was restricted to two teaspoonfuls of sugar a day each, in coffee or tea. During the month-long experiment, all 52 got normal treatment with antibiotics. Result: at the end of the period, "the sugar-limited group did no better than...
MUSICALS. Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome. The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival!, and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point, is a corny mixture of Irish sass and sentiment. As for Rodgers and Hammerstein...
MUSICALS. On balance, Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome! The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival! and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point is a corny mixture of Irish sass...