Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KENNEBUNKPORT, ME., Playhouse. Robert Horton arouses passions of love and hate when he unexpectedly appears in a small town in William Inge's Picnic...
COHASSET, MASS., South Shore Music Circus. Love blossoms amid big-city racial tensions to the music of Leonard Bernstein in West Side Story...
...solid players in order to amplify his musical ideas. Straight Up and Down is a tidy blend of high-flying exuberance and smooth delivery (note the trumpet's sassy quote of Sweet Georgia Brown and the baritone sax's sly paraphrase of Once I Had a Secret Love). While Mississippi Dip is a blues to be taken lithely, A Taste of Honey switches tempos faster than the foot can follow, building to heated ensemble crescendos behind Frank Foster's tenor and Jerry Dodgion's flute solos. New Girl, composed by Pearson, has a graceful flair...
Anyway, the show blew my mind a little and consequently coherence isn't going to be my strong point tonight. The lovely girl who shared with me a pair of tickets the management so kindly offers to critics kept reminding me how ghastly it was to have to see a great show from a reviewer's seat, making constant mental notes and evaluations on the spot all over the place. But I resisted and refuse to be objective. I know the people who made this Everyman. I've worked with most of them and I love them: partly because...
...illusion-ridden, somewhat desperate, party below. He is flanked by Death, dressed as an English gentleman (or perhaps the perfect butler) on his right and the best blues band in Cambridge down-stage in front of him. Everyman, rich, irreligious, and self-satisfied, is approached by Death while making love to Beauty his mistress (Tommy Lee Jones rattles off his "Death, ye comest when I had ye least in mind" as if the Vice Squad had just caught him with his pants down...