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...Lincoln Center or Bartley's-any place where intellectuals gather-and pretty soon you will overhear a crowd of animated types talking about those great forgone musicals. You know, shows like the late Mare Blitzstein's Juno (1959) or Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me (1963) or Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle (1964). (Well maybe you don't know, in which case you may very well be hanging around with the wrong crowd...
...EXCEPTION AND THE RULE, adapted from Brecht by the West Side Story team, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel. Oilmen race across an Asian desert...
Musically, Gypsy is a knockout. Jule Styne never before or after wrote a score to compare with it; one suspects lyricist Stephen Sondheim of having contributed measurably to the choice and execution of Gypsy's tunes. And Bob Hoffmann's orchestra does them proud...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Unable to face the pressures and pleasures of a normal world, a band of hermits holes up in a department store-hiding by day, emerging by night. Based on John Collier's short story, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, "Evening Primrose" stars Anthony Perkins, Dorothy Stickney, Charmian Carr and Larry Gates...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum resurrects characters and situations from Plautus, brings back Burlesque, and stuffs them into a musical comedy mold. The book, by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, makes the most of sightgags, puns, and other paraphanalia of low comedy. Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics move the show along tunefully and cleverly. And the cast at Agassiz is doing justice to this very funny show...