Word: loesser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...12th annual show, the Winthrop House Music Society Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. wonderful sets by Eric Martin .R-7LAURIE GOLD and BILL JACOBSON '61 in the highly successful Winthrop House production of "Guys and Dolls...
Greenwillow (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Lesser Samuels and Mr. Loesser; based on B. J. Chute's novel) takes the composer of Guys and Dolls for a long ride-from a tough Manhattan of floating crap games to a quaint folk region of scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call...
Against all this, the dancing helps little, for being too much in the same spirit; and the music does not help enough. Composer Loesser has written some pleasantly catchy tunes and some ringing, folk-operatic choruses. But it is not first-rate Loesser, and it merely provides bright spots in an irritatingly dull evening...
Greenwillow, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, is based on B. J. Chute's novel about a family that suffers from wanderlust. Four seasons ago, Loesser converted Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted into The Most Happy Fella. The present show, starring Tony Perkins in pursuit of Zeme North was described by the Philadelphia Bulletin's Ernie Schier as "a collection of bits and pieces" and "unwieldy." (March...