Word: marmelstein
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...CLOWN AND WAIF. This is the particular province of the U.S. musical theater. Every female superstar launched on the American stage in the past decade has been cast as a clown or a waif. Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut as the office-girl clown, Miss Marmelstein. in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and graduated to the Fanny Brice clown in Funny Girl. Liza Minnelli enjoyed her first solid success as a waif in Flora, the Red Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret...
...song can do the trick, too. I think back just three years to I Can Get It for You Wholesale, in which Barbra Streisand had one solo, "Miss Marmelstein," the only redeeming feature of a tawdry show. And look where it landed her! If there is any justice, Gilbert Price will be the talk of Broadway the day after the show opens there on May 16, and from that time forward the name of Price in musical circles will no longer automatically mean Leontyne...
...Greatest. Her impact was instant and stunning. Barbra's only previous acting experience on Broadway was a 20-minute role as a marriage-proof secretary in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, though her plaintive song called Miss Marmelstein was the only bargain in an evening that was otherwise strictly retail. Many people still say Who when they hear her name, but she is not from nowhere. She is only 21, but she has made an occasional $7,000 a week singing at places like Las Vegas' Riviera and $3,000 at Manhattan's Basin Street...
...written for the show, but one might forgive the vacuous book if the oi-so-stock Jewish jokes were textured frequently with a clever little song. After all, I Can Get It For You Wholesale--with an equally trite situation--overcame its basic obnoxiousness with show stoppers like "Miss Marmelstein." Enter Laughing, however, doesn't even...
...first trip to Manhattan until she was 14. She had only a few hours of nightclub singing behind her when she was cast in a part on Broadway in last year's I Can Get It for You Wholesale. She stole the show with a number called Miss Marmelstein, and has been intent on musical comedy ever since. "I don't think about space and the nuclear thing," she says, starting off on another trip into the unknown. "I don't want to cut off the emotion because I just know the sensory things. I deal...