Word: lyrically
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...limiting himself to collegiate themes, Ashenhurst lays himself open to book and lyric situations which are most familiar to his audience. And yet, by searching diligently for originality, he has come up with a show that is clever and fresh, a job which was appreciated thoroughly by the capacity audience that filled Sanders last night...
...most part structural, than it is to put one's finger on the good. The defects, such as the dubious comic relief provided by he shenanigans of a young woman named Baby Love Dallas, can be sharpened up in a couple of weeks. The high quality of lyric beauty in much of the dialogue, however, cannot be lost. One outstanding merit of the present production is Mildred Natwick's perceptive interpretation of Dolly Talbo, while Georgia Burke, as Catherine the cook, is consistently amusing in her role of wry observer of the extraordinary proceedings. Finally Cecil Beaton's scenery, particularly...
This wasn't really a bad performance--there were many moments of lyric and dramatic intensity--but it still was quite a let-down. Perhaps the gentlemen were tired (they came to Cambridge in the midst of a rigorous Beethoven cycle in New York). At any rate, they did justice neither to the music nor to themselves...
...boil elsewhere with such a lyric yeast...
...typical scene shows Kahn (Danny Thomas) gnawing a cigar in a nightclub, distractedly hatching an idea for a lyric to a new tune. His wife (Doris Day) breaks his creative trance to tell him that she is pregnant. Kahn brightens and says happily: "I've got it! We'll call the number Pretty Baby...