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...being carefully brushed off and restored, its wood panelling, brass railings, velvet curtains and stained glass, window preserved for posterity. It's also probably the only movie theater that plays Gilbert and Sullivan between showings. But if you want to preserve any illusions you might have about Singin' in the Rain, maybe you should wait until the feature has changed before you check out the Exeter Street Theater...
...accepted piece of common American knowledge that Singin' in the Rain is one of those classic 50's musicals--perhaps the classic--what with its Adolph Green-Betty Comden score and its Gene Kelly-Stanley Donen choreography. A lot of people who have never seen the movie in its entirety have managed to catch a tantalizing glimpse of the title number--three or four minutes of sheer, unadulterated joy, with Gene Kelly splashing around like an ecstatic, acrobatic duck through foot-deep puddles and grinning idiotically under a rainpipe's torrent...
...rerelease the movie nation-wide--with plenty of hype, including umbrella-festooned theater lobbies--and give those people a chance to see the other 97 minutes. MGM would have done better to confine itself to three minutes of Gene Kelly in the puddles. Unveiled in all its technicolor gaudiness, Singin' in the Rain stands revealed as an overblown, badly acted, often tedious extravaganza that almost drowns Kelly's perfect little droplet...
...split the left in the '60s along the lines of attitudes, strategies and age. Everything's okay, he whispers; sure we had some disagreements a while ago, but that's all over, we all want the same things, so let's bury bad memories and do some old fashioned singin'. But it won't wash...
There are hints in Wendy Waldman of a thematic unity, a unifying consciousness that weaves the songs in and out of each other. In "Western Lullaby," the opening cut, she sings "Leave behind your visions dark and dreary... for you know that singin' is believin' "and it's almost as if her album is the dream she's leading you into after she has put you to sleep. There are moments on the album when the songs seem to fit together as nicely as a string of dreams. The slow western drawl promising to take you away "across the wide...