Word: romps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wise Woman falls somewhere be tween opera and Broadway musical. Adapted from a fairy tale, it is Grimm for grownups, a Rabelaisian romp peopled with a thieving mule driver, an irascible king, a too-wise queen, and a trio of drunken tramps who keep the action crackling along at a raucous, laugh-a-minute pace. The score is uniquely Orff-primitive rhythms and simple, rustic melodies, punctuated with fanfares and percussive outbursts. Orff, 69, Germany's most famed contemporary composer, believes that "melody and speech belong together," and in his Singspiel style he strives for a marriage in which...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) fields a pair of champions, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who romp through this hilarious, sentimental, fiercely moral old tearjerker about a Neapolitan pastrymaker who is dragged to the altar by an indomitable tart...
...refuses to keep a straight face before some of the pious obsessions of the contemporary world and stage. Eli Wallach, Alan Arkin and Anne Jackson do honor to Murray Schisgal's comedy and Mike Nichols' direction as they rant and romp on a bridge...
COMEDY IN MUSIC. Victor Borge toys with the ivories and tickles his audience in a 1½-man romp with Co-Pianist and Foil Leonid Hambro...
Breakfast in Bed. There are at least 30 children's hotels in Britain, and in France one called La Botel (derived from "bébé" and "hotel") has just opened in the hamlet of Bérchereau, about five miles from Rambouillet, where tots have acres to romp in, and cars run two round trips to Paris every...