Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musical at the Colonial, "Texas, Li'l Darlin'," starts off promisingly enough. After the overture, a lantern slide of the cover of a large picture magazine, similar to "Life," is flashed upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last...
...music by Robert Emmett Dolan and the lyrics of Johnny Mercer only seemed to be genuinely felicitous in a few numbers, notably in a yodeling song "They Talk a Different Language" and in "Love Me, Love My Dog." The direction of Paul Crabtree seemed to be striving for adolescent stage humor, such as having the men roll up their trousers to reveal garters, and allowing excessive mugging by the dancers, even to the extent of permitting one to feign illness and rush into the wings to vomit. Oh yes--there is a small girl in the show who re-unites...
Book and lyrics are by William S. Wheeling, II '50. Wheeling collaborated with Russell A. Ames '51 on the music. Gerhardt N. Liebman '50 will do the company's sets...
...juvenile jazzbos, puts it, "We were pretty rough at first-everybody fighting for their own salad." Now, when they play together, they like to "get casual." Don Ingle does some of the arranging. Sample: their Show Me the Way to Go Home consists of 17 bars of written music, followed by the words "sing chorus" scrawled across the middle of the score sheet; at the end it demands a "jam out." They don't worry about programing. Says Ingle: "We play half what the audience wants, which is Dixieland, and the other half what we want, which, it happens...
...Dixie is a happy music," says Bunny. "Swing makes you want to bounce, and guys that listen to bop drool at the mouth, get red-faced and excited. If we can get a combination of all three . . . we'll have something we'll call phuff...