Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY is a $900,000 anachronism, a Hollywood notion (courtesy of Jack L. Warner) of what a Broadway musical is like, drearily familiar from countless Hollywood films of Broadway musicals. It takes consummate ineptitude to make Jimmy Walker dull and to make his mistress, Betty Compton, even duller.
Yet while the niece may be dark in theme, David Boorstin's direction sustains a lightness of execution. If anything, the pace sometimes gets a bit too frenetic. The musical backing of The Rhythm Method adds a driving hard sell that puts over much of the rest of the play...
Fortunately, the conversation shifted to entertainment. Roy contended that "Mame" was the greatest musical ever produced. He also liked "Goodbye Columbus," especially the girl (beautiful) but not so much the "ugly Jewish boy." Gary told Roy that though he might know a lot about the law (Dan told me that...
MARC BLITZSTEIN wrote The Cradle Will Rock in 1937 as a radical "play in music" rather than a musical. The play is a theatrical examination of who controls American society. Since the American power structure hasn't changed much in 30 years, the current production at the Loeb Ex is...
The show was then redesigned to Gleason's order. The title song, originally a ballad for Richard, was changed to a superfluous (if nice) rouser that Gleason could handle. A weak director was hired and the libretto's somber tinge was submerged in fireworks. The show ran for a year...