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...Elizabeth Taylor spent the summer in town with The Little Foxes, and this fall a quartet of grandes dames will lend their incandescence to the stage: Katharine Hepburn in The West Side Waltz, Claudette Colbert in A Talent for Murder, Anne Bancroft in Duet for One, Joanne Woodward as Shaw's Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Hal Prince and based on the 1934 Kaufman and Hart comedy. With Company, Follies and Sweeney...
After Vassar she toured Vermont colleges and ski areas for a few months with the Green Mountain Guild, a rep company, playing Shaw and Chekhov for $48 a week?"and it wasn't even the Depression." Then she made her commitment, and sent off an application to the Yale School of Drama. Yale awarded her a three-year scholarship and, as it turned out, the privilege of playing twelve to 15 roles a year...
...explained: "Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up." You could not get away with that today, even if you thought of it, because nations are as touchy as individuals. Then, too, no one wields real criticism any more. In 1905 Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession was hailed by the New York Sun as "a dramatized stench"; now it would be "fun for the entire family...
...mainly in the plain and that My Fair Lady is as loverly as she was in 1956. Frederick Loewe's music has lost none of its enchantment, and Alan Jay Lerner's book and lyrics, which of course owe more than a passing debt to George Bernard Shaw, seem more than ever to be models of literacy and wit. Some other musicals from the '40s and '50s-The Most Happy Fella, for instance-now seem dated; this one, which was set so long ago anyway, will probably never show...
...splendid 73, more attractive at three score and 13 than most men are at 37, and his voice will doubtless retain its music when he is 103. But he is perhaps 20 years older than Higgins, the most irascible misogynist since Jack the Ripper, ought to be. Neither Shaw nor Lerner ever indicated that the professor and the flower girl would wind up in a clinch, but the possibility, which gave the story much of its electricity, was always there. That charge is what is lacking from the new production. Harrison's Higgins is urbane and amusing, a rare...