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...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying--Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows musical on big business. At AGASSIZ, Radcliffe Yard...
...does some Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricusse numbers, ignoring the cliches ("What Kind of Fool Am I," for example) for, among others, a pulsating "Nothing Can Stop Me Now." When he gets around to Frank Loesser, he follows the standard "I'll Know" with "Somebody Somewhere," a Loesser masterpiece of understated beauty (from the forgotten Most Happy Fella) that nobody ever sings...
Just as Johnson's libretto ignores the differences between '40's movies and '60's musicals, Styne and Harburg's songs are ancient in their inspirations. Harburg seems to have completely missed the lyrical revolution epitomized by Frank Loesser's How to Succeed, in which words like "Some irresponsible dress manufacturer" were set to music. The lyrics to Married Alive are still drawn from the same preposterous vocabulary (love, tree, rainbow, etc.) that dominated the worst of Hart and Hammerstein...
...redeem itself further, the movie implements Frank Loesser's score with inventive arrangements by Nelson Riddle, and augments the chorus with a bevy of twittering birds who assure the executives that A Secretary Is Not a Toy. Equally good is the staff of ulcerated businessmen who inch their way along the top of the company as they pinch their way around the bottoms of their secretaries. Comically caught in the act, unfaithfully married and unhappily harried, they are reminders that How to Succeed was good show business because the structure of its satire rested, however slightly, upon a grain...
...time needed to produce a piano from two years to three months. He does not feel that this produces the world's best piano, but with a shrewd eye for publicity he can point to the fact that his pianos are already used by Composer (Guys & Dolls) Frank Loesser, Fred Astaire, Guy Lombardo, and some of Conrad Hilton's hotels...