Word: singin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occasionally, the earnest musical-comedy style of the singing and dancing threatens to overwhelm the material, and a purist friend tells me that the house pianist was way off throughout. So, purists take note. For the rest of us it's a cast of dreamboats and high-power honeys singin' the kind of songs that heaven sings when its feelin' blue. So to speak...
...know if I'd want to run around in public with tights on," concedes Gault, who nevertheless wants "to be an actor on the big screen." Or at least the big stage. Two days after his terpsichorean debut, Gault played a cameo role in a Chicago production of Singin' in the Rain. How're they going to get him back on the field...
...swiping of a bystander's gold watch. He brings vitality to such shopworn comedy as passing out, being revived and protesting, "Here! I didn't faint for water." In a leaning-on-a-lamppost number, Lindsay achieves a slouchy elegance that visually echoes Gene Kelly's title solo in Singin' in the Rain. Plunkett is melodious as "my girl," but Lindsay's performance practically shouts, "Look at me!" and thoroughly rewards the attention...
Critics and viewers alike have hailed it as the best movie musical ever made. Now two of its biggest fans, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor, plan to add up the magic numbers of their 34-year-old MGM hit, Singin' in the Rain, plus many others, during an eight-month tour of the U.S., Britain and Australia beginning next winter. Reynolds, who has been touring with her own show on the variety circuit, phoned O'Connor, who had been appearing in a nostalgia-trip revival of Showboat, and the two tried out their act in a smash stint three...
...1940s the Music Hall was the most popular entertainment attraction in Manhattan. Both New Yorkers and tourists waited hours for tickets to the opening of such postwar films as Mister Roberts, An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain. Along with the movie, they saw the Rockettes, the troupe of 36 dancers who remain the living symbols of the hall...