Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frump--the boss's maddeningly wimpish nephew--not only an impressive comic flair, but also the best singing voice in the cast. O'Brien's clear, powerful solos in "Coffee Break" and "Gotta Stop That Man," the two best-staged production numbers, do full justice to Loesser's music...
...tribe stands out in this show--breaking the ponderous script. The cast, and special advisers to the show such as David Maybury-Lewis, professor of Anthropology, have put much time and effort into reproducing a cultural microcosm of an endangered tribe. The rituals and dances, the makeup and music, all conspire to take your mind off the surrounding baggage of the rest of the show...
...wholesale brutality of the Turkish characters, the unreal prison conditions, and the imaginary arbitrariness of the Turkish judicial system, not to mention Billy Hayes' unbelievably easy escape? Not one technique is spared to impress on the audience the repulsiveness of Turkey. Violent scenes are accompanied by Turkish folk music as if to show the necessary relationship between the two. Even the normally beautiful Istanbul skyline is transformed by the camera into somber and gloomy scenery--a feat in itself...
...diverting decorations. Dancers dance only when one would expect the characters to do so--Cinderella daydreaming with her broomstick, or the guests waltzing at the royal ball--and the content of the movement is a trite and anonymous classical pattern. Cunningham's choreographic vocabulary is limited, ignoring both the music (a beguiling Prokofiev score) and any place of space outside the lateral extension of center stage...
...Alexander worked for the St. Louis Star for four years and for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 14, eventually becoming assistant city editor. He came to New York City and TIME as a writer in 1939. Equally at home in subjects as diverse as politics, religion, music, foreign affairs and the classics, Alexander became assistant managing editor in 1946 and managing editor three years later (see A Letter from the Editors...