Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curse makes life troublesome for ladies who love Murgatroyds. Dame Hannah, played by Jeannette Worthen, was forced to renounce Robin's uncle, and Mad Margaret, depicted by Rosemarie Grout, quite lost her wits over Robin's brother, Despard, the current baronet. The arrival of Richard Dauntless (William Monnen), dashing sailor and lady-killer, precipitates a crisis. Dispatched to plead Robin's suit, he falls in love with Rose himself. Richard and Despard reveal Robin's identity just as he's about to marry Rose. The heartbroken maiden turns reluctantly to Richard; Despard is reunited with Margaret; the bewildered but enthusiastic...
...slow and mis-timed. When a scene crackles and takes off, it is usually the result of a good performance; Jeff Harper, for example, who performs three startingly different roles with dash, bravura, and intelligence, is largely responsible for bringing off "The Drowned Man," an amusing episode about a sailor who'll drown himself for 60 kopecks. Jacques Semmelman plays a decent, if uninspired, Chekhov (the narrator), but in this contest his straightforward warmth practically saves the show. There are fleeting good moments from Stewart Chrition and Barbara Bejoian in "The Seduction" episode; Chrition, especially, with his macho-male-deodorant...
...aftertaste, though, is something like the last four drinks in a ten-drink evening: They tasted good, you think, but damn if you can remember what was in 'em. Son of a Son of a Sailor takes no chances--the formula worked last time, sent him from Paul's Mall to the Music Hall, frontal-assaulted the Top Forty, and paid for a new sloop, Euphoria II. There aren't but a half-dozen memorable lines on the new album, and even fewer musical quirks, like the cello (the cello??) that follows Buffett down one of his trademark Acapulco cliff...
...Jungle" from the new album. It's a vagabond expatriate song with a couple of funny lines, but he did the same idea much better last year in his cover of Steve Good-man's "Banana Republics." And the title cut from Son of a Son of a Sailor is almost a bibliography of the half-dozen sailing paeans he's written before...
...already, Texas, noses to the ground, developing a sound that relied on electric and accoustic and pedal steel guitars with less and less studio multitrack overdub gibberish and more roadband verisimilitude. Buffett, playing solo bars from New Orleans to Key West, Florida, poured chukka into his roadband sound: drunken-sailor crabby-cowbell filled-in reggae rhythms, compounded with clean country whine-guitars, a baying folkie voice and Greg "Fingers" Taylor's wailing harmonica equals shrimpboat rock. Buffett bottled it quick before it fizzed, and the music hasn't changed much over the six albums in the last five years. Buffett...