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Bundling is the subject of "The Pursuit of Happiness," by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, and it is on this play that "Arms and the Girl" is based. The new product has a rowdy, bumptious book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields and Rouben Mamoulian. It calls on Nannette Fabray to play a girl who tries to win the American Revolution singlehanded, but succeeds only in causing complete confusion. Her mission brings her to make clever use of her bed in times of crisis--with and without a large, saw-toothed "bundling board." Miss Fabray has plenty of assurance and ability...
...production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars might have been twice as good...
...then] Bernard M. Baruch ... as financial adviser . . . Around the big mahogany table are opera experts like [the Berkshire Festival's] Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
Summer Holiday (MGM) is a musical version of Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's 15-year-old comedy of smalltown life in the Teddy Roosevelt era. In some respects, it is still fresh, for Director Rouben Mamoulian has attempted to follow on film the pattern he used on the stage with Oklahoma! Instead of unfolding in rigidly separated plot scenes and musical numbers, Summer Holiday was planned as a flowing synthesis of songs and dialogue...
...music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by the Theatre Guild). All Oklahoma's horses and all Oklahoma's men have put another charmer together again. But Oklahoma's and Carousel's Composer Rodgers, Librettist Hammerstein, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Director Rouben Mamoulian, Costume Designer Miles White have not repeated themselves. Carousel strays pretty far from Oklahoma!, just as it shies completely away from Broadway. A reworking of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, it is not a musicomedy but a lovely and appealing "musical play...