Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUPERMAN (Columbia). Superproducer Hal Prince should have nipped into a phone booth and found himself some supermusic for his musical. As it is, both score and lyrics are decidedly Clark Kentish. Recommended only for indefatigable collectors of original-cast albums...
MAME (Columbia). The Broadway season's biggest musical hit has spawned a surefire original-cast recording. Jerry Herman's score repeats his Hello, Dolly! success, this time with Angela Lansbury instead of Carol Channing. The title song contains its own review: "You charm the husk right off of the corn...
SWEET CHARITY (Columbia). Cy Coleman's score and Dorothy Fields's lyrics are spotty in this hit-show album. Gwen Verdon's songs sound strangely tuneless, and the show's greatest asset, Bob Fosse's choreography, is lost completely. But some of the second-lead and chorus numbers are sprightly, particularly the memorable Baby Dream Your Dream, sung by Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver...
...piece symphony orchestra, reinforced with 24 balalaika players and a section of Japanese instruments including a samisen, a koto and a 6-ft. gong (valued at $3,000), plus organ, novachord, electric sonovox, harpsichord, electric piano, tack piano and zither, plays Maurice Jarre's Oscar-winning score. The variety of instruments would be more interesting if the listener could pick them out, but they all seem to play at once. One haunting tune, Lara's Theme, emerges-but just barely...
...score card is clear enough. Just a year ago, the victory-flushed Viet Cong stood poised for the final thrust that would cut South Viet Nam in two and assure a Communist takeover. Month by month, the insurgents' momentum has since been slowed, stemmed and finally reversed by the massive input of U.S. arms and men. Today, with 275,000 Americans fighting in Viet Nam and 400,000 expected by year's end, the Communists are finding that the war of liberation plotted by North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap is disastrously out of date...