Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STAYING ALIVE must be a struggle for legitimate theater in Boston; a trip to the Charles Playhouse will convince you of that. You walk past some of the city's most picturesquely seedy boarding houses to get there, and during intensely quiet moments on stage, boistrous music from the night club next door throbs through the walls. The management has decided to charge major league prices but can only provide pony league leg-room and ventilation...
...dominated by a group called the Shadows. The Shadows wore "sober, terribly neat stage dress of gray suits, matching ties and highly polished shoes. They did little dance steps, three one way and three the other. Everything was neat, polished but restained in their appearance as well as their music...
...adult world ran pop music, and they didn't want things becoming too loud, or too wild. Pop singers were not, despite their nostalgia, a very talented bunch, and none of them wrote their own music...
...truth, the Beatles didn't write too much of their music at the time, but they weren't too resrained onstage either. They "played loud and wild and looked scruffy...they had...their own new sound...A sound you had to run away and hide your ears from, or go as wild and ecstatisc as the people producing it...It was a new sound but it was being made by people who were like the audience, natural, unaffected, unsmooth...
...good effect, and the rest of Rachel, Rachel's small cast is fine as well as suitably anoymous in character. Jerome Moross has written a score that would be more noteworthy if the themes and orchestration weren't so similar to The Big Country, for which he also wrote music. Stewart Stern's screenplay is consonant in its intelligence with Newman's direction...