Word: lyrical
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...John Gary, 32, describes himself as "a lyric baritone with a freakish range" (three octaves). Born John Gary ("My mother was a Gary Cooper fan") Strader in Watertown, N.Y., he toured the South as "the all-American Irish boy soprano" before he was ten. Blond, boyishly engaging Gary woos with his high-register, artfully shaded renderings of Danny Boy and Unchained Melody. His ability to hold a note for a seeming eternity, he says, is a skill that comes from his many hours spent underwater working as a professional scuba diver. In that capacity, he claims the world...
Cole Porter's fans never heard that lyric while he was alive. It was just one of those things he wrote for his Broadway musicals and filed away unused because he had another song he liked better. Now, six months after Porter's death at 71, his publisher, Dr. Albert Sirmay of Chappell & Co., has come on a trove of more than 100 Porter pearls stashed away in his Waldorf Towers Manhattan apartment. Dainty Quainty Me, Dizzy Baby, I Can Do Without Tea in My Teapot and dozens of others should spark the current Porter boom night...
...illusions about it. Just prior to his death in 1956, he said: "I admit and I warn you-the play lacks wisdom." What the play has is wildness, chaos, raw youthful exuberance, an ardent desire to shock, and a compulsion to spew up nausea in the accents of lyric delirium. One line sets the tone of the play: "I see the world in a mellow light: it is the Lord God's excrement...
...doll of 19 when she bowed on Broadway in 1930, and 14 years have passed since her lyric legs last graced a Manhattan stage. Not that Ginger Rogers has been idle. Looking maturely desirable at 53, she has headed the road-show company of The Unsinkable Molly Brown and found time for TV and movie roles as well. This summer, when Carol Channing, 44, leaves the Broadway cast of Hello, Dolly!, the role will be spiced with Ginger...
First for the ladies of the company, each one a pleasure to the eye and ear. As Polly, Catherine Winn makes her debut in Harvard drama, and she is a welcome addition. She possesses that rare combination of first-rate acting ability and a beautiful lyric soprano, and she knows how to balance the two. Her sweet, artless Polly could soften even the hardest highwayman's heart, and we easily understand Macheath's impetuous marriage vows...