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...noisy exuberance of Ain't Misbehavin' inspires movement of quite a different kind. Though it received the 1978 Tony Award for Best Musical, the show is really a revue, in which three women and two men--costumed in glittery '30s chic--perform over thirty songs first recorded by Fats Waller, a legendary jazzman who helped create the sound of swing with a talent for both jive and blues...
...Misbehavin'. Fats Waller was a man of foxily mischievous humor, a rollicking hand on the keyboard, and a ravenous appetite for Bach, booze and broads. Old soldiers may fade away, but this jubilant musical tribute proves that the manner and the music of a master jazzman...
...with gut-lusty abandon in Eubie! If the twelve members of the cast were sent to Washington, they could undoubtedly resolve the energy crisis in two hours. Yet as a musical revue without a narrative line or cohesive theme, Eubie! ranks as a mini-clone of Ain 't Misbehavin '. That is not too difficult to understand, since Fats Waller's musical imagination was richer than Blake's in wit, satire and sophistication. Eubie! is thoroughly entertaining and unerringly professional, but it bubbles more often than it blazes...
...Misbehavin'. This handsome tribute to Fats Waller is a jumpin' Harlem cantata of urban night music. Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards for Best Musical...
Maurice Waller, one of Fats' three sons, came up with four or five that no one could remember hearing. The success of Ain't Misbehavin ', Maltby hopes, may bring a few more out of albums and attics. And that, for all those new Waller fans crowding in to see the show, may be the biggest treat...