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DIED. VIVIAN BLAINE, 74, actress; of congestive heart failure; in New York City. In the first years of the '50s, audiences were drawn to Broadway by the singing, dancing swirl of gamblers, cops and missionaries in Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. But it was a lone blond in an empty nightclub who stopped the show, poignantly, comically complaining in song of her unmarried state. The five minutes of adenoidal lyricism known as Adelaide's Lament made Vivian Blaine a White Way legend, so linked to the character of the warmhearted show girl who spoke Runyonese that...
...SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Winsome Matthew Broderick could have used a little more edge in this tale of maneuvering through the corporate jungle. But bright, innovative sets and a strong supporting cast fashioned a jubilant Broadway revival of Frank Loesser's 1961 musical...
...London, 1944. Marian Ames, the ever-so-gracefully-aging screen queen, is fronting an all-girl band to entertain the Eighth Air Force with tunes that spotlight some of the era's premier lyricists. They play Frank Loesser's Love Isn't Born, It's Made; Johnny Burke's Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes and His Rocking Horse Ran Away; Don Raye's Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Rhumboogie and Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar. As in any creative assembly, there are spells of emotional fireworks. But the ladies play and sing handsomely, even during an air raid...
Driven by the top musical salesmanship of perky Marcy McGuigan, tomboyish Debra Barsha, sassy Jackie Sanders and little-girl-lost Emily Loesser (Frank's daughter), this band echoes Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators, the outfit Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis joined in Some Like It Hot. Appropriately, Charles Busch, the off-Broadway drag star who co-authored Swingtime's mint-thin book (with Linda Thorsen Bond and William Repicci), is now playing Marian...
Likewise fresh--surprisingly so--is this 1961 musical, which has more verve than one would expect from a satire of modern business written a third of a century ago. Frank Loesser's music and lyrics, reorchestrated by Danny Troob, retain their brisk propulsion, as does Abe Burrows' book, somewhat realigned and streamlined by director Des McAnuff...