Word: patters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hotels. Sonny had his girl friend Susie Coelho in tow, and Cher, newly separated from Husband Gregg Allman, brought along the little ones, Chastity Bono, 8, and nine-month-old Elijah Blue Allman. "The show," says Cher, who glittered onstage in her beaded finery, "is just songs and some patter and the same old Sonny and Cher...
...year. An Evening of Bernstein passes over the contributions of his two collaborators, putting an unjust emphasis on Bernstein's lyric-writing genius. On the whole, this Evening at the Agassiz suffers from the inevitable comparison with Comden and Green. The two professionals knew how to put songs and patter together in a continuum; they had the ability to make the most rehearsed gesture appear spontaneous. But the spoken interludes in An Evening of Bernstein are only too obviously filler between songs. The audience--and probably the cast as well-will wish them over soon. Flynn and Smith are especially...
...really, it is uncanny how the terminology used to distinguish the different jazz styles today resembles the practiced patter of a used-clothes saleswomen. "Contemporary" replies the hey-man at the other end of the telephone when you ask what the well-noised jazz-listener will be hearing tomorrow. Contemporary? What's contemporary? The voice will reply--sounding laid-back of course--"Like, uh, sort of late 50's and early 60's--it was too advanced for them then so they didn't appreciate...
Dennis Crowley, back once again to sing the patter song, is another familiar face. Crowley has somewhat less to do as Major General Stanley than he did as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, but he carries the part off with the same Gilbertian quizzicality that has marked his previous successes. His rendering of the difficult patter song is excellent, with every word--well, just about every word--clearly audible...
There are G&S aficionados who delight in humming Sullivan's airs and are apt to break into a patter song at a moment's notice, or without it. Then there are those whose exposure to the masters of Victorian operetta has been painfully shoddy. The current G&S production of The Pirates of Penzance is bound to convince both groups that it is, it is after all a glorious thing to be a Gilbert and Sullivan...