Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shields, Charlaine Woodard-are equally superb. Indeed, the funniest song in the show is Ken Page's Your Feet's Too Big. Sitting alone with a glass of booze at a cafe table, Page yells out at his absent woman, "From your ankles up, I'll say you sure are sweet./ But from there down, baby, there's just too much feet." By the time he gets to the reprise, every foot in the theater is stomping: "Don't want you 'cause your feet...
...their lives, most of the performers knew little about him. When they began rehearsals, they watched old Waller film clips to get in the proper mood. Maltby, the son of Music Arranger Richard Maltby, knew nothing of Fats before his friend and associate director Murray Horwitz suggested building a show around Waller's work. They both soon discovered, as Maltby told TIME'S Janice Castro, that "nobody wedded comedy and music the way Fats did. He is always playing little jokes on the side, and you can't help but laugh...
...criminal," says Maltby, "but a lot of Waller's music is simply gone. The music publishers don't have it, and nobody knows if it exists anywhere." To assemble their show, Maltby and Horwitz unearthed 75 songs...
...Fats' three sons, came up with four or five that no one could remember hearing. The success of Ain't Misbehavin ', Maltby hopes, may bring a few more out of albums and attics. And that, for all those new Waller fans crowding in to see the show, may be the biggest treat...
...painting has been established beyond doubt. The ancient artisans also left behind tiny sculptures of exquisite beauty, meticulous carvings on mammoth bone, and other stunning objects. Like the tableaux on the cave walls, some portray paleolithic man's animal neighbors. Others, often rendered in an almost contemporary style, show the Cro-Magnon people themselves...