Word: singings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absurdly funny things in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968) was the notion of a musical comedy called Springtime for Hitler. Now that conceit begins to look prophetic. In All This and World War II, viewers are invited in effect to sing along with the blitzkrieg, follow the bouncing ball to Yalta...
...upon a golden bough to sing...
...songs not only cloy, they choke, which must make them as much of a challenge to sing as to hear. In The Slipper and the Rose, the melodies slosh around lyrics that have largely to do with the frustrations of love and royalty. The Prince (Richard Chamberlain) bellyaches tunefully about the difficulty of finding a loved one from amongst the array of regal dogs put forward by his father the King (Michael Hordern). These complaints absorb rather more time than they should, and result, directly or indirectly, in several dance numbers of singular clumsiness. The dancers-presumably professionals-look like...
...traditional dinner in honor of the Metropolitan Opera company, whose visits have been the peak of the city's social season since 1910. The club explained that its ballroom was being refurbished, but Atlantans figured the real reason was that Leontyne Price, a black soprano, was to sing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Met Director Rudolph Bing let it be known that if Price was not invited to the Piedmont dinner, no member of the company would attend...
...group's newly-discovered hope reaches a high point in a beautiful, colorful scene in the kitchen, where Mathilde announces she is pregnant. Laughing, teasing each other about their eccentricities, they sing together of the future, when the 20th century will disgorge the unborn Jonah into a future remodelled for his benefit. Here on the farm they have found a retreat from the capitalist world in the communal spirit that has given them hope again...