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...also in keeping with the arrogant character of the untalented prima donna whose injury opens the road to fame for our heroine Peggy Sawyer, although she often appears a bit too secure for a little girl who just got off the bus from Allentown. Pa. Finally, Bibi Osterwald brings a certain spunky energy to a rather cardboard character of singing coach. Unfortunately, despite the fine performances, this production is still plagued by some technical difficulties with sound and music levels, but such problems no doubt will be worked out soon...
...secret is in the fast pace and uniformly good acting - a rarity on TV - rather than the sometimes tired scripts. The Jewish mother is now a walking cliche, but Bibi Osterwald makes palatable even the thousandth serving of chicken soup. Audra Lindley is just as good as Bridget's mother, an Upper East Side Edith Bunker who sweetly tells her husband that Bridget could not have eloped since she had not yet picked out her silver pattern...
...months on the road earlier. I want to thank Eve Arden for those three months in Chicago last year, and Carole Cook for the Australian tour, and Dora Bryan for replacing Miss Martin so superbly in London, and Martha Raye for her stand this spring on Broadway, and Bibi Osterwald for her brief stands on Broadway...
...Boys from Syracuse (Portia Nelson, Jack Cassidy, Bibi Osterwald, conducted by Lehman Engel; Columbia LP). The 1938 Rodgers & Hart musical (based on A Comedy of Errors) in a dazzling record reduction. Such hits as Falling in Love with Love and This Can't Be Love are treated overtenderly, but the album is worth having, if only for the late Lorenz Hart's remarkable rhymes...
Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...