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...last time Liz Taylor sang onscreen was in a 1948 musical called A Date with Judy. But game as ever, she turned up at a London recording studio last week and began warbling for her movie role in Composer Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music. Unfortunately, Liz's first rehearsal with Leading Man Robert Stephens was less harmonious. The actor was fired from the cast and told that Taylor had cited poor "chemistry" between the two as the reason. "Bad chemistry?" retorted Stephens. "We're actors, not pharmacists." Taylor, meanwhile, sang a different song about...
...that its gags could hold a guttering candle to Neil Simon's. Or that the music and lyrics would be found in Stephen Sondheim's or Richard Rodgers' wastebaskets, let alone their bottom drawers. The book relies loosely on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, never as a spine chiller but as a rib splitter...
PACIFIC OVERTURES Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by JOHN WEIDMAN Scenic Design by BORIS ARONSON...
Producer Harold Prince and Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim are men of giant daring, gifts and vision. In Company and Follies, they gave the U.S. musical theater new horizons. The corollary of valorous risks is the occasional mishap. Pacific Overtures might be called Prince and Sondheim's moonwalk musical. They land, but the dramatic terrain proves to be as arid and airless as the moon...
...Sondheim's score counterbalances this by being agile and clever in the way only he can be. But his forte is sophisticated parody, and only in a song called Someone in a Tree does palpable emotion linger. The final impression is that the show belongs to the flagellant school of contemporary American selfcriticism. Whether he means to or not, Prince seems to be arguing that the U.S. opened up Japan by force, sowing the wind of brutalizing social change and thus reaping the whirlwind of Pearl Harbor and global commercial competition...