Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouncy, Connecticut-born Soprano Eileen Farrell, 39 who at 185 pounds (she weighed 220 last year) is still too big for the Metropolitan Opera's tastes, came home from her first European tour, on which she wowed audiences at both ends of the musical spectrum. Eileen opened her tour...
Irwin Bazelon has composed the most appropriate and witty musical score in the Festival's history. The opening dissonant notes, with their absurd instrumentation, immediately set the mood for farce. Here and there a xylophone is comically used. And Falstaff is often accompanied by a tuba solo--a coupling that...
In the musical comedy division, My Fair Lady and The Music Man continue tops, with Flower Drum Song offering second-drawer but pleasant Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Dallas, Texas, State Fair Music Hall: Wish You Were Here, a poolside musical with Shirley Jones (through July 5); Friml's swashbuckling old The Vagabond King, with Burgess Meredith.
Santa Fe, N. Mex., Summer Theater: Dark of the Moon, the old (1945), haunting backwoods musical.