Word: kismet
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...that Broadway scarcely ever engenders a totally new musical these days. It rehashes old ones or injects old plays with songs and dances. The most popular recent marketing device is to turn originally all-white musicals into all-black musicals. In the current instance the show is based on Kismet, and the locale has been changed from Baghdad to Africa, though the basic beat and mood of the musical are Caribbean. That is not too surprising, since Director-Choreogra-pher-Costumer Geoffrey Holder was born in Trinidad...
...career, the world has functioned on the principle of predestined and even tragic inevitability. Most of the planet's religions are steeped in a fatalism that teaches acceptance of dira necessitas, the fearful inevitability of things. The Greeks' Moira, the Romans' fatum, the Muslims' kismet-all enforce the will of an otherworldly plan, against which it is useless to exert a defiant or creative will...
...whiz who made The Wiz is now turning Kismet into Timbuktu!-and bringing it to Broadway. Borrowing eleven songs and the plot from the 1953 hit musical, Director-Choreographer Geoffrey Holder has cast the colorful show with blacks and set it in the fabulously wealthy capital of 14th century Mali. Eartha Kitt plays the wife of the wicked Wazir who wrongs Melba Moore, a sweet young country girl. Moore, whose face is dotted with Holder's notion of tribal markings, says that she loves the chance to "kick up my heels a bit" and "to get the prince...
...following night, the Reds won the seventh game and the world championship on a bloop single in the ninth inning. In the Globe, Gammons wrote: "She is in retreat this morning, Olde Fenway; resting. Her affair with Kismet fell through at the very last, and while it was good, it was not to be this time...
...Cousins, 60, the turn of events seemed like a kind of kismet. He had invested most of his professional life in SR and was bitter about surrendering it to two hot entrepreneurs younger than he (Charney is now 31; Veronis is 45). In exile, Cousins was bearish about the prospects of the Charney-Veronis enterprise. Events seem to have vindicated his acumen. "The reason that I left the Saturday Review" he said last week, "was that its fragmentation into four monthlies was not a sound intellectual concept. How could it then be a good business concept?" If Cousins was elated...