Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fosse's choreography sizzles, but Neil Simon's book is a burnt-out case...
SWEET CHARITY is spectacular Gwen Verdon, who proves that she is still the dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. Bob Fosse's choreography is fresh, kinetic and witty, but the book, written by Neil Simon, is consistently stale, as if he had heard rather than written the gags...
SWEET CHARITY. In this musical, Gwen Verdon proves that she is still the dancer assolnta of the U.S. stage. Bob Fosse's choreography is wry and witty and winning, but the book, written by Neil Simon, is consistently stale, as if he had heard rather than written the gags...
...late, Neil Simon's plays--particularly Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple--have become prototypes of the well-constructed comedy. The elements that Simon uses--the faltering young marriage, the faltering old marriage, and the freethinking teenager or postteenager--also find their way into everybody else's comedies. And J.A. Ross's Happily Never After simply can't resist overdoing a trend...
...rest of the cast writhes under the direction of Alan Arkin, known until now as an actor. Just as Neil Simon provides a model for good comedy writing, Mike Nichols has come to be considered the comedy director to emulate; but Arkin, himself a veteran of the Nichols-directed Luv, fails to match up to the master...