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...CLEVER STAGING and some fine performances bring a freshness to the cliches. As Marsh, Barry Nelson brings a deft comic touch to the role, allowing us to see moments of softness. Only when Nelson tries to sing does the quality drop, but since this seems to be in character it doesn't detract from his portrayal. Dolores Gray's nasal, somewhat harsh voice is rather discordant, but is also in keeping with the arrogant character of the untalented prima donna whose injury opens the road to fame for our heroine Peggy Sawyer, although she often appears a bit too secure...
...than tripled in size. More than 50 of the students and many of the faculty and staff are Filipinos, a radical departure from the past. Once a week, as required by national law, the entire student body Lines up to witness the raising of the Philippine flag and to sing in Tagalog the national anthem, Pambansang Awit...
...children, in the opening number, sing of their subordinate roles in the family. The boys learn the Torah, while the girls learn the First arts of Wilfery, Once again, Fiddler follows the tradition--while the younger generation of characters with in six solid performances, none reaches the game level as those of their elders, Lowis A. Myers does a good Job an Model, the rebellion second daughter, and Jeffrey Cooper makes his relatively small role of Motel the Tailor loss one of the most memorable in the show--his transformation from the sky and stammering neighbor boy into the suitor...
...Pennsylvania to study photojournalism, dashing up to New York to become, without visible effort, a top model. Director Sidney Lumet gave her the small but P highly important role of the lesbian Lakey in his film of Mary McCarthy's novel The T Group. Playing at moviemak-sing, the blond 19-year-old would waft on set without "sleep after a night on the town, and further outrage the intense young actresses in the cast by taking notes for a "what I did on my summer vacation" article to be published in Esquire...
Awake and Sing! is essentially a story of failed promise. But none was so glaring as the playwright's. Clifford Odets was one of the most applauded writers of his generation; he ended in Hollywood writing unproduced scripts, repudiating his old colleagues and furnishing names to the House Un-American Activities Committee when it came to investigate the film industry. As evidence of his political rightness, Odets showed the Congressmen a pan of Awake and Sing! in the New Masses: "A situation is created out of nothing just to get across a wisecrack." That is not an entirely unfair...