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Even the real 1953 Kismet probably could not stand up in 1978. A simple damsel (Melba Moore) with a poetic thief for a father (Ira Hawkins) ascends, through incredible accidents, to become the bride of the king of the realm (Gilbert Price) despite the machinations of the Wazir
...bringing it to Broadway. Borrowing eleven songs and the plot from the 1953 hit musical, Director-Choreographer Geoffrey Holder has cast the colorful show with blacks and set it in the fabulously wealthy capital of 14th century Mali. Eartha Kitt plays the wife of the wicked Wazir who wrongs Melba Moore, a sweet young country girl. Moore, whose face is dotted with Holder's notion of tribal markings, says that she loves the chance to "kick up my heels a bit" and "to get the prince and live happily ever after-like in all the fairy tales and good...
Paul's Mall and the Jazz Workshop are showing why the Rise Club will soon be the number one place to see jazz in Cambridge. The Mall has Melba Moore, who sounds okay, not great, on her new album "Melba," produced by none other than disco Van McCoy. Speaking of disco, the Jazz workship has Dexter Wansel in this weekend. Wansel is right out of The Sound of Philadelphia studios, and carries with him the high recommendation of Ken Camble, of Camble and Huff fame (the O'Jays). The strange thing about this Philly International date is that Jean Carn...
...skirt and twirling a parasol, demonstrated in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment last year. "A man shies away from an overly aggressive female," warns Gale Childers, who nonetheless has been aggressive enough to be a South Carolina bank branch manager at the age of 30. Alabama State Treasurer Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed up for an official appearance in Birmingham driving a pickup truck...
...Melba Moore's latest LP, "This is It" is anything but. The producer, disco king Van McCoy (the creator of last summer's hit, "The Hustle"), tries to prop up Moore's small voice with layers of insistent drumming, strings and background voices. The arrangements lie somewhere between the lushness of Marvin Gaye and the overkill-extravaganza of Barry White, but they are totally unsuited to Moore. She screams and whines a lot (probably to make herself heard), and the end result is unnecessarily strident, not soulful. She should return to the concept of "Peach Melba," released a few months...