Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROMISES, PROMISES is a slick, amiable and derivative musical based on the film The Apartment. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, but the rhythms of Burt Bacharach's score sound rather like sporadic rifle fire.
These men are nervous and upset and tired because they are "on the road" with a Broadway show. They have just read the first editions of the next day's papers, and they have found that Kevin Kelly (drama critic of the Globe) and Eliot Norton (of the Record American...
Unfortunately, the biggest advance sale in the world is no insurance against mediocre audience and critical response. In Dear World's case, the opening night audience at the Colonial was polite, but little more. The show's jokes got the mildest of laughs; the musical numbers merited only perfunctory applause...
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is the sound that a magic car makes in this slightly less than enchanting musical about a pixilated inventor (Dick Van Dyke), his two pixilated offspring and his pixilated girl friend (Sally Ann Howes).
All plays and musicals are rather like bedtime stories for grownups. But they rarely resemble the fables, fairy tales and romances that one remembers as a special delight of being very, very young. A new musical called Celebration dwells in just that land of enchantment. It is a charmer for...