Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jones Beach, L.I., Marine Theater: Song of Norway, Edvard Grieg's music; the park commission's fireworks...
...Fair Lady and The Music Man are the class of the musicomedy field, with Flower Drum Song a few lengths off the pace...
...musical comedy division, My Fair Lady and The Music Man continue tops, with Flower Drum Song offering second-drawer but pleasant Rodgers and Hammerstein...
...point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums of South Carolina. For that matter, Sidney Poitier's Porgy is not the dirty, ragtag beggar of the Heyward script...
...summer Folk Song Festival, which will be held during July and August, has been announced...