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...Great White Way many great musicals have transcended thin scripts. People don't go to a musical for the story; they want Show Tunes, and that is where Woman of the Year falls shortest of all. Fred Ebb and John Kander, who did Cabaret. Chicago and the film New York, New York (which included Frank Sinatra's new theme song), wrote the lyrics and music, creating an inoffensive score without a single memorable tune. It's standard Broadway muzak, which cries out for a powerful voice--at least--to enliven the proceedings...
...mediocre music--many of the songwriters Masiell uses struggled along with him during his early years. Or maybe musical standards were sacrificed for thematic ones. Whatever the reason, we don't get Jacques Brel--well . . . only twice, and these are the two best numbers--but rather Leslie Bricusse, and Kander and Ebb. It's fine that we're not at The Palace, but a few more palatial songs would have improved the quality of the performance...
...keep his prisoners, Belluci's Hotspur is impulsive, impatient and proud. And where his frenetic gestures grow tiring, his beautiful voice, sneering at some words, spitting out others, compensates. Still, the limitations of Bellucci's portrayal are apparent in the scenes he plays with his wife. While Susan Kander as Lady Percy plays skillfully with her husband's emotions, holding him as she yields to him and yielding just when she holds him the most, Belucci, ever the young soldier chafing at the bit, is not sensitive enough here...
Music and Lyrics by John Kander and Fred...
...score by Kander and Ebb is staunchly melodic; professionalism runs in this pair's musical bloodstream. Hollywood, California is a saucy spoof of the West Coast gossip queens, City Lights is a dithyrambic salute to New York, and My Own Space is a pensive, meditative ode to the beauty of possessing one's territorial declarative. Halston's costumes blaze like sun-kindled autumn leaves, and the dance team of three women and four men are, collectively, a card hand of sev en aces. One member of the chorus, Roger Minami, provides ebullient comic relief in Arthur...