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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. Everyone involved in this project has obviously put a lot of effort into it, most of which goes to waste. Shirley MacLaine plays a pixilated dance-hall hostess-which may relieve the tedium for some viewers...
...manner of Janis Paige in the old Broadway smash, Pajama Game, U.S. bankers are lamenting the discovery that a 71% interest rate "doesn't mean a helluva lot." Pinched for lendable funds by Washington's fight against inflation, the nation's major banks last week raised the cost of borrowing to that level-the fourth rise in little more than three months. The prime rate, the interest that banks charge their best corporate customers, went up a full i% from the 7% rate set only last January. Although the new rate was a historic peak, neither businessmen...
Dames at Sea--An ingenious musical spoof of the kind of entertainment Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell used to provide during the depression: a lot of fun. The cast includes a lovely girl with a weird voice who goes by the name of Bernadette Peters. At the BOUWERIE LAND THEATRE, 330 Bowery...
Hair--A hippie "Hellzapoppin" with a lot of spirit and a nice score firmly based in the vocabulary of early rock. Only when the authors try too hard to explain to our parents what the new culture is all about do things become a little thick. Tom O'Horgan is the director, and the nice cast includes Barry McGuire and the nice Heather MacRae. At the BILTMORE, W. 47th...
...lot of heat is being generated by this new, serious, non-patriotic musical about the writing of the Declara- tion of Independence. There are those who love it--and those whose hearts do not quite thrill to the goings-on (which include an animated discussion of Thomas Jefferson's sex life). Still, the cast does include such people as William Daniels and Paul Hecht, and the general style of the piece is supposed to be quite out of the ordinary. At the 46th STREET THEATRE, W. 46th...