Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlantic Seaboard is more familiar with the second house, but never have so many Bostonians-proper and improper-spread out in such numbers into the cool Berkshire Hills, or the trout-stream areas of New Hampshire and Vermont, or the watering places along the North Shore and Cape Cod. New Yorkers are stippling the dunes and potato fields of Long Island with daring new beach houses that are a far cry from the vast mansions of Southampton-the second houses of another generation...
...demanding and resorts to bleating on occasion. As Manon, Constance Lambert does well enough with a nebulous part. Lights, costumes, choreography, and the chorus each show professional handling. The musical director Robert Mandell deserves particular praise for the lush sound he gets out of his orchestra. At North Shore, the orchestra is located in a box-like enclosure that funnels out into the theatre, and this fact may account for the volume and fullness of the music. In any case, the orchestra, unlike other music tent orchestras, gave the allusion of being very large and thus being. Especially capable...
...Bittersweet has remained through the years one of those musicals one remembers as something fine and wonderful, yet few of those who feel such a nostalgia for it could recite much of the plot or even the general situation. The production which opened on Monday evening at the North Shore Music Circus explains both the nostalgia and the general ignorance of the plot. The plot may be safely catalogued as one of the weakest around which a musical comedy was ever devised. The remembered youth of a romantic lady serves as the vehicle for all the cliches of operetta...
Much of the success of the North Shore production may be attributed to its star Rosalind Elias. Unlike many another musical comedy actress, Miss Elias does not exaggerate the potential of her role. She attempts no feigned gaity to intimidate the audience, no sophisticated wit, no theatrical high notes. Rather, she plays the part as it is written: as an intense and sentimental romantic, with little but the intensity of her emotion to commend her to her audience. But the romanticism of the part as it is portrayed by Miss Elias secures its effect. The luscious music comes through powerfully...
...South Shore Music Circus (Cohasset): telephone...