Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open the Door, Richard! made no more sense than Kilroy, or Chickery Chick or The Hut-Sut Song-and was obviously in for the same flash fame. Its simple-minded chorus, something that any fool could sing and many...
...worries are flown on the wings of song," said Weisgal after a closer inspection of the cable. Workshop President Jerome T. Kilty '50 was equally confident: "With this wire in our grasp," he said, "we cannot be caught empty handed...
Whoosh! Next day, U.S. Communists got around to paying their tribute to Little Father Lenin at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Climax of the memorial rally was unquestionably a song (see cut). The words were by C.I.O. Organizer Vern Partlow, music (a prolonged monotone) by leftist, talented Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans, Porterhouse Lucy). Robinson rendered it in person, strumming his guitar and crooning close to the party line...
Victor Herbert tunes make up for the tara-diddles. The title song and I Might Be Your Once-in-a-While are familiar favorites, and a comic sextet, Pilgrims of Love, has been gagged up into a high spot of the show. Otherwise, the score is just about as faded as the book...
Perhaps the melodrama muscles into the new Street Scene a bit too conspicuously; there is, at any rate, a good deal less of the old garish street life, the huddled, gabby tenement humanity. But, endangered by a lot of song-&-dance distractions, the story builds much more strongly by leaning on plot rather than people. And it finds time for enough that is human and humorous. Composer Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) scores with all his lighter songs and with some of his romantic ones. And there are good people to sing them-notably, opera singer Polyna Stoska...