Word: operetta
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...Birdie. This adolescent operetta loses a lot in translation from stage to screen. Ann-Margret, as the girl from Sweet Apple, Ohio, who gets involved with mush-mouthed rock-'n'-roller named Conrad Birdie, can't fool anybody into believing that she is 16 years old. But then she doesn't really...
...operetta rested on Alien, Alexis, and the sorcerer (it doesn't, so don't worry), it would have only one really strong leg. Miss Kimball sports a magnificent red wing and a voice to match; her eyes and other accoutrements rove interestingly. She, like Constancy and Dr. Daly, is fun to watch and hear. Alexis, unfortunately, cannot sing, but he overcomes this handicap in the wisest way: by singing loudly and acting well...
With one eye on The Beggar's Opera, Bart has contrived a sort of lovable rogues' operetta, Oliver! is chockablock with songs that are as straightforward, single-minded and rhythmic as a choo-choo train, and they do keep the show steaming briskly and more or less merrily along. Five months on the road have given the company the treacherous confidence, on reaching Broadway, to overplay characters that were already over written to the point of caricature. The cast also knows where all the laughs are buried, and it squirrels them out with stagy anticipatory glee. Bruce Prochnik...
...made its debut with the opening of the $15.4 million Philharmonic Hall. It is still surrounded by a pocked and chugging wasteland of bulldozers and derricks, power shovels and cement mixers, which will eventually be a 14-acre landscaped park containing a repertory theater, a theater for dance and operetta, a library-museum, a building to house the Juilliard School of music, and (by 1965) the new $35 million Metropolitan Opera House. When completed in 1966, Lincoln Center will be a $142 million complex, and the most important cultural center...
...podium turned to acknowledge the gusty applause. The locale of Trauminsel may have been Mexico and the sets Utopian, but no one who had ever heard a Viennese waltz could mistake the theme-a simple case, as Stolz himself put it in the title of his most famous operetta, of Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time...