Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical, America's biggest contribution to the stage in this century, relies on a set of givens that has never really changed. Give 'em a couple of big production numbers, a whole lot of dancing, some love and a few funny lines, and they'll go home happy. Unless the book waxes trite beyond belief or the singers are tone-deaf, what you usually need in a musical is a lot of money and the kind of house-filling draw no producer can resist...
THERE ARE NO really striking songs here, no "Free Bird"s (still the most requested song on Boston radio, an American "Stairway to Heaven") and very little in the lyrics that rises above the sort of "Y'all should love yer brother and fight injustice" sentiment that had become trite even before the cynicism of the last five years slaughtered it completely...
...BEEN SAID by frustrated lovers and even meat hunters who break mirrors and fling frying pans in the morning, that men and women have been messing with each other's minds at least since Helen of Troy. And despite the computechnic heralding of this supercool Space Age of Sex, love and sex still bring on concommitant confusion, loathing, ambivalence and ugliness...
...after shunning her roomates cynicism, Deb joins in lament and tooth-grinding agony after her own love affair with Danny. Like Debbie, Danny merges character and cro-magnon consciousness with Bernie (who thinks all women should be wrung like lemons and then "dropped like a fucking hot potato"). But enough of this soap opera...
...folksinging/campfire counselor... so I just started writing songs for her." Those songs are among her biggest and certainly her most serious--including "Haven't Got Time for the Pain," "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," and, on her latest album, "Let's Make Love for Old Time's Sake...