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While Composer Jule Styne thumped the piano in accompaniment, Gypsy Star Angela Lansbury belted out a chorus of Everything's Coming Up Roses and happily observed: "The whole complexion of the joint is changing." For one thing, the Lambs had recently dropped a century-old rule that denied membership to women. Among the first to join: Jacqueline Onassis, who contributed $25,000 to the club's depleted treasury...
...Music by JULE STYNE...
...wisdom that diamonds are a girl's best friend. That was in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the musical hit that made her an instant star. It may be too late to revive that show, which never laughed quite hard enough at itself, but Lorelei is a particularly tawdry retread. Jule Styne has added a few routine songs; and the book, originally by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields, has been updated by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent. Lorelei has been touring the country for eleven months. Perhaps that is why not even the Art Deco sets - inappropriate for a 1920s story...
...Music by JULE STYNE...
...hummable songs are a plus, Jule Styne's songs are hummable, though you may not know quite which homogenized number you are humming. As for Bob Merrill's lyrics, they are the labored products of a man hovering over a rhyming dictionary. Sugar is almost a textbook case of a musical born after its time. It may well enjoy great wads of audience favor. But in the past three years, Company and Follies have altered the critical perspective by providing a musical form that is spare, intelligent, ironic, mature and capable of sustaining three-dimensional characters...