Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans were able to let their hair down over imported water, Prohibition might have succeeded. The cocktail party surely would never have been invented, no man would ever have insulted his boss, no woman would ever have been indiscreet ... I miss all these things at the im-ported-water parties nowadays, with their dedicated guests on lonesome pursuits sturdily keeping their hair up. Next morning, of course, there is a clear head but very little worth remembering in life...
...finally reached Broadway, it ran for 861 performances, and then toured the country. Funny Girl (1964) postponed its opening five times and went through 40 rewrites of the last scene. Finally, Jerome Robbins was brought in as production supervisor and added several songs, including You Are Woman, I Am Man...
Unfortunately, as in his previous operas, Tippett's libretto falls short of his music. The harder he tries to be colloquial or hip, the more stilted he becomes ("What's bugging you, man?/ Cool and jivey once;/ Now, touchy and tight"). His three acts of roughly 30 minutes each are so compressed that they allow no development, leaving on the mind's eye only a flashing succession of emblems...
...writing goes on, however, as steadily as ever. He is 200 pages into his new book, George Mills, about a working-class man from south St. Louis. "George," he explains, " is cursed with blue-collar blood that goes back to the First Crusade...
...curse is never to be a privileged man...