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...obvious and farfetched but also exhilarating-particularly when Star Zero Mostel virtually turns himself into a rhinoceros onstage. A Taste of Honey, a first play by Britain's young (19 at the time) Shelagh Delaney, is an unhistrionic, earthy drama about a desperately lonely girl. And the musical Irma La Douce, French to its very bedposts, boasts Broadway's most charming chippy, Elizabeth Seal...
This season Merrick has two of his old shows on the road (Destry Rides Again and La Plume de Ma Tante), one Broadway holdover (Gypsy), four new hits (A Taste of Honey, Irma La Douce, Do Re Mi and Becket) and one miss (Vintage )60). In all, his 20 shows have cost $4,000,000 to produce, grossed $40 million and repaid $8,000,000 to their angels, including Merrick. Says the producer, who sometimes talks in sporting terms although he is in no sense a sport: "I'm rolling a hot pair of dice...
...Monaco, WHEN IN NEW YORK, SEE "FANNY." Some of his schemes are ordinary (he scattered sawdust and cowboys under the Destry marquee), and some are bizarre; this week he plans to send half a dozen men about Manhattan wearing berets and carrying green pissoirs plastered with red signs for Irma La Douce. His most publicized feat occurred when Look Back in Anger seemed tottery and Merrick paid a dizzy young woman $250 to climb up over the footlights and slap Actor Kenneth Haigh's face because, she screamed, he was such a mean man. (Merrick tells the story well...
...Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower, and Bye Bye Birdie, a sprightly spoof of an Elvis-type monster...
...Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal emerges as a delightful streetwalker-and street dancer-in a jaunty French musical that fills its Pernod bottles with the milk of human kindness...