Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above the back-up instruments as the song opens. The rhythm seems familiar enough-just can't quite place it. Someone turns up the volume on the radio as guesses about the song fly about the car. With the first word sung, everyone knows the answer but looks no less puzzled because, well, that's Bob Dylan singing, and what the hell is he doing with a trumpet player and three smooth-singing female background vocalists in his group...
Philip Minor is less lavish with music than Freedman, and less self-indulgent in overall pacing. Although Minor commendably retains more of the text, his show is still a good twenty minutes shorter than the Stratford one. He has not, unfortunately, assembled a cast that is as skilled in classical diction as Freedman's players...
...musical or otherwise, from the period 1915-1945 have survived with such vigor and freshness. Porter was perhaps the greatest songwriter of all time, and certainly the most versatile. Critics are indeed hard-pressed to name anyone as consistently good, before or since. And his lyrics--few writers, much less songwriters, could ever match his wit and style. He not only reflected his times; he put a patina on them that will not fade...
Unfortunately, Porter's works, especially the less famous ones, are rarely performed in Boston. So the Charles Playhouse's current production of The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter is particularly welcome, both as a sure-fire cure for a case of the mid-summer blues and as a tribute to the grand master of American song...
...sure rhythmic style make Porter's works difficult to perform. But this company, led by the fine voices of Baja Mahdi and Linda Terry, can and does sing, very well. They tend to shy away from Porter's more famous stuff, concentrating instead on the more obscure but no less delightful material...