Word: operettas
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...SOUND OF MUSIC. The Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein operetta looses a landslide of sentimental song, but its most spectacular effects are achieved by Julie Andrews and the Tyrolean Alps...
...telephone switchboards were still jammed with protesting callers when the very next night Not So Much put on a tasteless skit turning the love story of the Duke of Windsor's 1937 marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson into a sentimental-silly comic operetta. Unluckily it happened to coincide with the sudden death of the Duke's sister, the Princess Royal, and the nation was outraged. With that last straw, Sir Hugh quietly announced that Not So Much a Programme would be, as of next week...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. Julie Andrews winningly upstages the Tyrolean Alps and surmounts heaps of sugary sentiment in this Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein operetta about the Trapp Family Singers who fled Nazi-dominated Austria...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. Julie Andrews winningly upstages the Tyrolean Alps and surmounts heaps of sugary sentiment in this Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein operetta about the Trapp Family Singers who fled Nazi-dominated Austria...
True or not, such gemütlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset, but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white...