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Bradley Burg's score is very much a saving-grace, with its unswervingly melodic line and its sweet harmonies. Mayer's lyrics show signs of being dashed off, except for the last, very beautiful one, and the lyricist doesn't seem to be able to make a rhyme without using enjambement, a device which should always be used very sparingly. The score keeps the show flowing when the accumulation of gag-lines that have fallen flat start to clog...
...Says Lyricist Paul Simon, 24: "It's become out of style to lay yourself open, to approach people with your arms open. Everybody nowadays is closed up -the put-on, the putdown. It's tough to come on with your arms wide, knowing you may get kicked in the groin...
Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 48, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot) now finishing his libretto for a musical based on the life of Haute Couturiere Coco Chanel; and Karen Gundersen, 31, a Newsweek reporter he met during an interview last year; he for the fifth time (others: Socialite Ruth Boyd, Actresses Marion Bell and Nancy Olson, and Lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo), she for the first; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, all named for Family of Man awards for their contributions to humanity; Israel's patriarchal Man of Letters Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, and German-born Jewish Poetess Nelly Sachs, 74, a fragile lyricist who fled Hitler's Germany in 1940 to live in Sweden, named to share the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature. No peace prize was awarded...
David Merrick describes the season as "another year of Merrick." Among the ten shows he is producing are two musicals: / Do! I Do!, based on Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston; and Breakfast at Tiffany's, which boasts Composer-Lyricist Bob Merrill (Funny Girl), Director Abe Burrows (Cactus Flower) and, as Holly Golightly, Mary Tyler Moore from TV's Dick Van Dyke Show...