Word: mirthfulness
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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT brings an antipodal pair, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, back to Broadway with a jaunty, sly revue in what they call the "theater of kindness." They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...range. The entire cast exploits the comic possibilities in the music, but Regina Resnik as Dame Quickly and Graziella Sciutti as Nanetta stand out-along with the redoubtable Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who, as Falstaff, makes his voice convey everything from arrogance to cravenness to humiliation. At times the mirth seems about to explode in all directions, but Bernstein's firm hand directing the Vienna Philharmonic gathers it in and the voices taper off in the graceful, fluid way that Verdi had of ending sequences...
...baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs are laid in the making of a comic omelet, but Flanders and Swann scramble their humor with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...mirth...
...Seasons. "Sir Thomas More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometimes of as sad gravity: a man for all seasons...