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Watson and Crick. Their names, like those of Lewis and Clark, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Stanley and Livingstone, are enshrined in tandem. Yet a few years after their epochal discovery, the men -- James Dewey Watson and Francis Harry Compton Crick -- began to drift apart. Though they have remained in touch...
Pal Joey, John O'Hara's tale of a night club heel, is a classic of the musical theater. The show boasts a beautiful score by Rodgers and Hart, whose numbers read like a who's who of musical theater (Bewitched, I Could Write A Book, Den of Iniquity)
The addition of two lesser known Rodgers and Hart ballads do little to develop the characters; rather, they hurt the peace of the show. This Pal Joey runs a somewhat slow two hours and 40 minutes.
Two of the musical revisions are successful. The restoration of a beautiful short lyric ("Talkin' To My Pal"), which was cut from Pal Joey before its Broadway opening, is strongly illustrative of Joey's character. The addition of Rodgers and Hart's "A Lovely Day For A Murder" adds depth...
Not that Coleman is the last American to write good theater songs -- not while Charles Strouse, Jerry Herman and Kander and Ebb are still banging them out. He just happens to be the latest American to have had two first-run hits playing on Broadway at the same time (City...