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...based on the 1951 play, The Fourposter, is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. While the musical is blessed in its stars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and in its director, Gower Champion, the book and score are blubber...
...stars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, this musical is blessed; in its book and score, it is blubber. The show is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. "A marriage is neither an ecstasy nor a slavery; it is a commonwealth," said G. K. Chesterton; in I Do! I Do!, marriage is a half-century diet of cotton candy...
...frightened back into his pants. Morning-After Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their bare feet. Comes the nine-month dawn, or Counting the Contractions. "This has been going on for millions and millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston, looking as if he were in protracted labor pains of his own, replies ruefully: "How did the men ever live through it?" And so it goes, from The First Spat to Son's Wild Oats-something involving a bottle of bourbon. Suddenly it is time for daughter to leave...
...slickly packaged Broadway sentimentality, shrewdly calculated to flatter middleaged, middle-class couples into thinking that their cup is brimming with sunshine and moonglow. The show becomes palatable for two surpassingly good reasons-Mary Martin and Robert Preston. They are charmers of seismic force and theatrical perfectionists to the fraction of a nuance. They complement each other's temperaments. Preston hisses energy. He is as restless and agile as a panther. There is no repose in him, and the world is a woman to be won. Mary Martin exists to be wooed. She focuses light, as a magnifying glass brings...
...strange new world that you enter when you say 'I do, I do' Such a strange new world that you hardly can believe it's true, it's true." Just to add a little zip beyond cuing each other for songs, Martin and Preston have added a new bit of business: she plays a fiddle and he toots a saxophone in one number. The show is supposed to open on Broadway Dec. 5, three weeks behind schedule...