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...DANGEROUS CHRISTMAS OF RED RIDING HOOD, OR OH WOLF, POOR WOLF (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A musical special by Jule Styne, Bob Merrill and Robert Emmett. Cyril Ritchard plays Wolf, a hero in this version, and Liza Minnelli is the red (Riding Hood) menace...
FUNNY GIRL (Capitol) is actually a fourth album triumph for Barbra Streisand. She sings nearly all the Jule Slyne-Bob Merrill songs, from the ragtime Cornet Man and up-tempo Don't Rain on My Parade to the ballads that are a fever chart of her love affair, from its first tender moments (People) to the dawn of doubt (Who Are You Now?). Danny Meehan is a lively musical addition as a vaudeville hoofer, but Sydney Chaplin sounds as if he needs to be wound...
...playgoer who wants to cultivate amnesia need only listen to the Jule Styne music and the lyrics of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also undid the book. Donald Brook's costumes are deliciously droll, right for the period, and colorful as the frosting on a birthday cake. They should be saved for another show...
...Sounds. While Ray Stark was worrying about these things, Funny Girl opened in Boston and bombed. Writer Isobel Lennart began rewriting, Composer Jule Styne wrote twice as many songs as were finally used, and on the road $30,000 worth of sets were thrown away. Isobel Lennart wrote 42 versions of the last scene alone. The cost of the show eventually climbed beyond $600,000. The date of its New York opening was changed four times. Five weeks before the New York opening, Garson Kanin was no longer directing, and Jerome Robbins...
...comes along once in a generation. She has more than mere technical versatility. The real force of her talent comes from an individual spirit that is unique, a kind of life force that makes her even more of a personality than a performer. "She carries her own spotlight," says Jule Styne as a simple statement of observable fact...