Word: maudlinity
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...enjoyed the production. Gardner gives some excellent dialogue to the working class figures and itinerants who fill up the shelter. As the construction worker who brings his wife and son to the shelter Renato Rosaldo is sympathetic and competent. His wife, Myra Rubin, has, in the face of some maudlin lines, great dignity...
...Ritz, wept her words in The Man That Got Away, and brought down the first-act curtain with a ringing, roistering San Francisco. Long before this, the neutral auditor had realized again (one goes through this every time Judy Garland comes to town) that untidy life, maudlin fans and cornball repertoire did not mean much. There are not many good girl singers these days, although there are plenty of echo-chamber yowlers, and there is no one who can come within miles, or ergs, of Judy. She has, in addition to lungs, clarity, drive and rhythm, an incredible amount...
Comedy is used in Fanny, as in Marius, only for highlight, with little or nothing by way of ulterior motive. Laughter keeps the drama from becoming maudlin at those points where the story approaches such a danger...
...weeks straight the year before. To keep the more violent ones under control, the police have had to build a special truck lined with foam rubber and equipped with straps to tie them down. In an effort to teach some lessons, the police made recordings of the maudlin performances of the worst drunks arrested. The next morning the recordings were played back to them. If they were married, the wives were invited to listen...
Though Baker's staging was generally excellent, it was often maudlin in its excesses. Thunder and gales at every mention of the Devil and at every calumniation of religion seems unnecessary. But they were particularly poor when sung by chorus line behind the scenes. Once the chorus showed up on stage (now as corps de ballet) it proved more effective. The girls writhed and groaned about the feet of Lucifer, Belzebub, and Mephistopheles, rendering a vivid picture of Hell...