Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Out of a woman's dance group at St. Elizabeth's grew a hospital-wide musical production. "St. Elizabeth's Hotel," a satire on hospital life. For the show, the patients parodied a number of songs, including "You're Just in Love." They wrote.
As a musical organization the band's handicaps are legion. Faced with playing the dual role of School and Concert band, the group suffers from problems of identity, as well as conflict of interest and rehearsal time. Then there is the added problem of the basically limited repertoire of works...
The book, mostly the work of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, represents the flowering of a dominant style of pre-war musical comedy. An intricate, well-knit plot midway between a P.G. Wodchouse novel and a Pudding Show, though visibly pieced together in the Taft Hotel or the New Haven...
At Agassiz the book occasionally takes it in the ear. First of all, the extra songs (an innovation borrowed from the recent off-Broadway revival) are preceeded and followed by predictably awkward transitions. Also it helps not at all that each musical number, when the dancing is over, has gone...
But no amount of lyrical or musical genius can obliterate the productions one grisly faux-pas: an otherwise nonexistent character choreographed for himself by the director. It is one thing for a director to appear in his own production, and quite another to write himself into it. Besides, he should...