Word: mambo
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American jazz is everywhere; the party no longer even attempts to suppress it. "Moscow bands play a solid repertory of Western numbers. When the bands stop playing, they switch on tape recordings made from broadcasts of Music U.S.A., a Voice of America program." Latin American music-the samba, the mambo, the cha cha cha-is also popular, often under the guise of "native folk dances" of Cuba, Russia's Communist friend. Though Russia has its brawling young nihilists, the day of the stilyagi (zoot suiters) is gone; more often youths are dressed in conservative grey with pencil-thin trousers...
Over the summer, Segal and Raposo brought "the wrath of Achilles" to Sardi's Restaurant in New York in a backers' audition. After Segal had finished romping through "The Deus ex Machina Mambo," someone asked him if he would perform in the New York production...
...show was stopped too frequently for any one number to be called a show-stopper, though I judge that the Deus ex Machina Mambo ("You can put stock in a/ Deus ex Machina . . .") drew the most protracted applause. In fact, the level of humor was so consistently high up to the end, that the show could almost be accused of lacking variety...
...hoods' boss and Brian Doyle as a female soc rel researcher doing her master's on deviant behavior (trying to get the "scoop on the loop," as Rawle says). In the second act these two put on a marvelous song and dance called the "Planned Obsolescence Mambo." Rawle also has two excellent duets with John TenBrook, as Tuesday Kowalczyk (a muscular lady cop). Doyle has a way of exclaiming "That's fascinating!" that can bring almost any scene to a riotous close...
...Alley composer and lyricist, a Russian-born onetime Seattle bandleader ("I was the world's worst drummer"), who minted-with various collaborators-Mairzy Doats, Heartaches, If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake, Takes Two to Tango, and Papa Loves Mambo; after long illness; in Manhattan...