Word: misbehavin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saint Misbehavin...
MANY OF the performers and producers behind last spring's stellar production of Ain't Misbehavin' are also behind this production of Sweeney Todd. It's a big jump from the easy-going, cabaret-like, no-frills intimacy of the former to the moody, sprawling spectacle of the latter, but Director Brenda Walker and company pull...
...stage like a liberated tigress, purring and growling out a couple of dozen standards in a voice as supple and gorgeous as she is, and proving that Broadway still needs her when she's 64. Some shows have jettisoned the libretto and returned to basics: all singin' (Ain't Misbehavin'), all dancing (Dancin'). all burlesque (Sugar Babies) or altogether (the revival of Oh! Calcutta!). Indeed, Broadway is almost only singin', only dancin': of the 26 shows now running, 17 are musicals...
...Bobby Short is master of ceremonies. Although his dandified talent is misapplied here, the songs he dusts off (Tall, Tan and Terrific, Posin ') have period charm as well as charm, period. Present-day Broadway is represent ed by Nell Carter, that kitten of brass from Ain't Misbehavin', and Tap Dancer Gregory Hines from t, a one-man funky fusillade...