Word: lilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse-and-buggy pace. Its drinking is confined to a likable bachelor and a would-be sex-bad boy; its passion consists of the same boy's book-fed notions of it. Even in its parading, the show never turns brassy. Its tunes are offhand but full of lilt; and those who fill its period roles are mostly actors rather than musicomedy performers. That is why, at their best, they perform so engagingly. Take Me Along itself has less the effect of a full-scale musical than of a show much enlivened with music...
...this time, even the commercial for "Lilt Home Permanent" is out of kilter. Buranelli turns to the audience with a happy, conspiratorial grin: "Let me out!" He is obviously speaking for everyone onstage, including M.C. Edwards...
...Grimy Tams-insists that "nightclub singing is the hardest thing in the world to do." She makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on my Youth, throbs through Limehouse Blues, races with a fine, light lilt through The Springtime Cometh, a take-off an old English madrigal ("Gaily skippeth, nylon rippeth, zipper zippeth, whoop-de-do, which is to say, the springtime cometh"). For Cole Porter's urbane lyrics, her precise, finishing-school inflection provides just the right sophistication...
...folk music. Together with his friend Gustav Hoist, he severed the bonds binding English music to Germany and France. He once wrote: "Have we not all about us forms of musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art? For instance, the lilt of the chorus at a music-hall joining in a popular song, the children dancing to a barrel organ, the rousing fervor of a Salvation Army hymn . . . the cries of the street pedlars, the factory girls singing their sentimental songs. Have all these nothing...
...Shape. With money and a cast, the show still had a long way to go. Willson's script needed cutting and shaping to give it a nonstop lilt and easy movement. Director Da Costa, a craftsman who has worked quietly in the theater for more than 20 years, buckled down. Says he: "I thought the time had come to send the public out of the theater light-hearted instead of depressed. I wanted this to come off as a story about a charming renegade who reforms, a show with a lot of love and no hate, one that...