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The trio seemed to recognize the enthusiasm of the audience as they began the additional show, the first of three to come that day. Their confident swaggers and wide grins as they took the stage were a clear signal that they wanted to establish a good rapport with the audience...
Overall, the musical is worth seeing, but only for the matinee price. The singing by both Mills and Talmadge is weak and unclear, leaving one constantly straining to hear them. Those who loved Mills in Pollyanna and The Parent Trap will be very disappointed with her voice. Everyone knows the...
A few times, the shorts directors got composers to cavort onscreen. Some look embarrassed--check out Richard Rodgers' stiff delivery and Lorenz Hart's plaid jammies in Makers of Melody--while others are to the camera born. In the 1934 Hollywood Rhythm, tubby lyricist Mack Gordon (Did You Ever See...
Ah, the Broadway musical. A sitting-duck target for some pretty unmerciful snubbing (or just plain ignoring) by the magistral proponents of intellectualism and high art. And yet, for the critic who can't resist a good show or the damnably hummable tunes of a Rodgers or a Lloyd Webber...
Thus begins a chaste affair of the feet. Sugiyama takes ballroom classes at which he is pathetically inept, and it is ages before his dream girl agrees to help him (in a lovely montage scored to the Drifters' Save the Last Dance for Me). As he practices his steps--at...