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...been a quarter of a century since a shy blonde out of Jamestown, N. Dak., named Peggy Lee (real name: Norma Egstrom) sang that lament with Benny Goodman's band. She did right-and made plenty money. The intervening years have brought her smash-hit records (Lover, Fever), success as a songwriter (Mañana, It's a Good Day), an Academy Award nomination as an actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness...
...good deal of help, chiefly from the women. Like many of Shaw's women, the two female cabinet members--Amy Sue Allen and Phyllis Ward--are clearer thinkers than the men. Miss Allen, as the strait-laced Lysistrata, and Miss Ward, the giggly Amanda, are both very good. And Norma Levin, as Magnus' grand mistress Orinthia, plays her scene with Tigar magnificently...
...NORMA RICHARDSON Austin, Texas...
...soloists, Danius Turek (Fairfax) and Jennifer Kosh (Elsie) had the best voices; their singing made Sullivan's score sound like the more-than-respectable operatic music it is. Norma Levin's Phoebe was marred by singing that borrowed too much from the coyness of musical comedy. However, her acting more than made up for her vocal failings Mary Duffy as Dame Carruthers was, with the Yeomen, the only real musical disappointment of the evening. Totally oblivious to rhythm, projection, conductor, and pitch, she barely got through her own number and came near to ruining the ensembles in which she took...
...Norma Farber is quite good as Mrs. Hitchock, the tavernkeeper. The bar-maid and soldiers' whore, Anne is played by Dorcas Gill with little success, thereby keeping several bawdy scenes from being particularly bawdy. Her voice is too hard and flat and her movements stiff...