Word: nash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campy maitre'd, contributes one of the production's highlights in a number called "Romantic Atmosphere" and George Birnbaum runs a close second with "Perspective," his Thorton-Wilderesque observation on the place of man in the universe. As the delivery boy Arpad, Arthur Whitman is suitably enthusiastic. Sally Nash Gates has provided the constumes, fashioning them expertly to the time and place, and they appear to best advantage when worn by Janice Cuddy Smith. Not to end on that male chauvinist observation, be it also noted that in her two numbers--"I Resolve" and "A Trip to the Library...
...stage, September Song can be an enjoyable evening. The show presents a fairly accurate survey of Weill's work, divided neatly into two acts, the first mostly political, the second heavy on the old-fashioned show biz. Weill composed for lyricists as diverse as Brecht and Ogden Nash, and the creators of September Song have culled the best of all his lyricists for their show...
...first act in general is a bit uneasy, with a cast not quite suited for political theatre performing for an audience looking for yuks. The second act, however, goes over better. Margery Cohen's readition of "That's Him," from One Touch of Venus, is impressively suited to Ogden Nash's lyrics. Lanning runs into trouble, however, with his "September Song." His jut-jawed, toothless version is obviously patterned after Walter Huston, but comes out sounding so much like Al Jolson that you expect him to genuflect and cry out "Mammy" at the end. Cohen and Lander do a witty...
...spared by substituting another girl at the stake. Though hardly an orthodox look at Joan (among other things, she has a love affair with a farmer), Survival comes across well enough on disk, largely because the group Smokerise manages to operate within the rock mainstream (Beatles to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and still have something original...
Also on the executive committee with Strauch are: Lawrence Bogorad, professor of Biology; Charles W. Burnham, professor of Mineralogy; Andrew Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics; Guido Guidotti, Professor of Biochemistry; Leonard K. Nash, professor of Chemistry; and Edward M. Purcell, Gade Professor of Physics...