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Imagine, if you will, for one heart-stopping moment a production of The Yeomen of the Guard that included Doris Day as Phoebe Meryll, Joey Bishop as Jack Point, Jerry Lewis as Wilfrid Shadbolt, and a Colonel Fairfax whose singing voice is an engaging blend of Richard Dyer-Bennett and Rudy Vallee; and having in this manner proved yourself capable of the requisite amount of mental contortion, return with the now to consider briefly a new production of the Yeomen by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players that I and others sat through last night...
...Reds' three starters, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, and Bob Purkey are all having fine years, although O'Toole's 12-12 won-lost record might not indicate as much. Short-stop Leo Gardenas and second-baseman Don Blasingame are holding up well, and at first base, cast-off Marty Keough has done some timely power hitting...
Warwick, R.I., Musical Theater: Steve Lawrence as the soulless heel in Pal Joey...
...minor complaints should be made. For some reason, "The Lady is a Tramp" is interpolated into the score. It is a fine song, but it has nothing to do with Pal Joey. Second, on opening night, two entire scenes and part of another were omitted in order for the production to finish early. Such significant moments as the morning--after scene in Joey's apartment, with its song, "In Our Little Den of Iniquity," were left entirely out. This offense was compounded by having Mr. Lawrence entertain the patrons afterwards with songs. If the patrons were willing to stay, they...
...Lynn and the chorus and dancers offers one of the most hilarious and telling parodies of the conventions of romantic operetta that one is ever likely to see. It also serves to illustrate the sometimes very great distance between the romantic and the realistic forms in musical comedy. Pal Joey treats important problems with taste and even wisdom that one rarely finds in musical comedy. For this reason, the certainly very acceptable production at Framingham offers viewers a chance to investigate again the richness of this finest of the Rodgers and Hart scores...