Word: newley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Price is a featured performer in Roar of the Grcasepaint--Smell of the Crowd, the new Anthony Newley musical currently on tour in a pre-Broadway tune-up. The Variety reviewer singled out Price's "lusty, full-voiced" singing of "Feeling Good" as the production's "real musical click." That's Price's only song, but it indicates well a little of what...
...come to land the role in Roar? He auditioned like everybody else. Anthony Newley, the British creator and director and star of the show, said, "He's too young for the part and he's too short for the part." Why, then, was he cast? Newley had the right answer: "All he's got is the greatest bloody voice I've ever heard...
...would be all right if Cocky and Sir were more than symbols, if they had witty lines, clever songs, or pleasing tunes. But Mssrs. Newley and Bricusse manipulate words with no regard to their meaning. Most of their songs are snappy but senseless...
...Somehow, Newley and Ritchard hold the show together. Newley is a perfect clown, a graceful pantomimist whose range is limited but effective, especially when he's staggering under self-pity or belting out self-encouragement. And Ritchard, though there is still too much of Captain Hook in his giggle and leer, matches Newley's pantomime with a mocking, sophisticated farce that at times shines through the hazy book, lyrics, and music...
...Under Newley's imaginative direction, and Gillian Lynne's lively choreography, Greasepaint bounces idiotically along, though its sound and fury ends with a thud. Newley, a director as well as an author and actor, certainly is talented enough to stage, with decent material, an intelligent and entertaining show. But as long as he builds his castles out of ashes, they will, like this one, all fall down...