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...wrong. Even in the heyday of Harrigan and Hart and Cohan, it was the music and the production numbers that drove the action. Who today remembers the plot of a single Gershwin show? True, it was Hammerstein who condensed Ferber and gave her characters sharp, affecting lyrics to sing. But it was Kern, in a majestic score that moves fluidly and freely among such disparate idioms as vaudeville (Life Upon the Wicked Stage), the Viennese waltz (You Are Love) and the flat-out operatic (Make Believe), who gave them life. It is the music, not the plot, that will keep...
...fear, gentle reader. You, too, can utilize these schleppers for your own personal enjoyment. Just lightly tap one on the shoulder and watch them tip over. Unlike those weeble-wabbles you enjoyed as a child, these idiots do fall down. And they sing while they...
...illegitimate son. I'm not a "close friend" of Nicole's, either. I didn't drive past him on the highway that fateful day, I didn't notice the way he shoved Nicole out of that Rodeo Drive boutique, and I didn't hear him sing "Memory" in the courtroom. I am just an ordinary citizen who should mind his own business...
Marilyn Sokol (Gittel, Sender Shlamazel, Yenta Pesha) is a performing genious as far as bawdy presentational exhibition is concerned, and Charles Levin (Gronam Ox) knows how to sing and strut mock arrogance and hammed idiocy as well as anyone. Remo Airaldi, with a stout frame assisting, caricatures overweight kids and clever petty thieves with equal virtuosity. So why are they only supporting performers...
...Billy's voice hasn't gone. From the little I heard, it was as pure as ever. So all I can say is, Billy, why didn't you sing us more than a few songs and just forget the talking? We'd have loved and respected you just as much--and probably more...