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...mistress are both contented girls, opens next month in Phoenix and will skip around among cities in the middle, mountain and far western states before opening on Broadway Oct. 24. All sorts of shows will be pussyfooting through the recently discovered Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto belt. Oliver!, English Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart's musical based on Oliver Twist, has already begun its U.S. tryout in Los Angeles; it opens in Manhattan Dec. 27. Of course, this way-out-of-townsmanship can be carried to extremes. Something called Foxy, getting ready for Broadway, recently opened in the Yukon...
...most significant work to be produced in the tradition of realistic musical comedy. It was in this tradition that Rodgers and Hart did their best work, seldom diverging into the separate operetta tradition into which Rodgers moved after Hart's death led him into partnership with the operetta lyricist Oscar Hammerstein. Characteristics of the realistic musical comedy tradition, stemming from John Gay's Beggar's Opera and similar' works, include a selection of bouncy tunes that require no great vocal prowess to sing, a comic plot that may be either broadly farcical or almost tragic (as in Pal Joey...
Clinton, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: The World of Jules Feiffer, a new revue with book by Cartoonist Feiffer, music and lyrics by West Side Story's Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, directed by Mike Nichols...
...bolster this piffling book, veteran Tunesmith Richard Rodgers, 61, has fashioned a score of romantic witchery-most hauntingly, The Sweetest Sounds. Doubling as his own lyricist after four decades with the late Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers is less assured, more studied than spontaneous, less caught up than caged in his own words...
...keep; I'm sure that we can carry on With income from our sheep." So does Director Jack (Lucky Me) Donohue, who can't even extort amusing pedal persiflage from Actor Bolger, one of the cleverest comic dancers of the age. And so do Lyricist Mel Leven and Songwriter George Bruns, who might profitably have excised Glenn MacDonough's words ("Toyland! Toyland! Little girl and boyland!") but should have restricted the impulse to "modernize" Victor Herbert's music-might as well try to jazz up Piesporter Goldtröpfchen with Pepsi-Cola...