Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearances are fastidiously staged and rehearsed from a black loose-leaf notebook that programs every musical sequence, every lighting cue, even every hand gesture. Even more important to her than the craft of show biz s the art of the popular song. Over the years, she has learned the arcane alchemy through which a tune can be transformed by its treatment. When her warm, smoky voice curls languidly around a lyric or teases it along with up-tempo jazz phrasing, familiar material reveals unsuspected meanings and yields new freshets of feeling. "There are always deeper layers to discover...
...difficult to appreciate the nostalgia of the public-which included John Kennedy-for the place and the musical called Camelot. A golden blend of song and story, it celebrated the fabled, far-off landscape of the English soul, where it never rained till after sun down and where by royal decree summer lingered through September. By Broadway standards, no musical ever had a more regal lineage. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the creators of My Fair Lady, did book and lyrics, based on T. H. White's brilliant tetralogy The Once and Future King. Moss Hart directed...
...touching, tragic beauty whose elongated face and aristocratic grace are reminiscent of a medieval tapestry. Without her, Camelot would be disastrous. With her surprisingly true voice and regal talents, it has its brief, shining moments, though in the end Camelot is reduced to Camelittle. Arthur's final nostalgic song seems less a memorial for the dream castle that never was than for the picture that might have been...
...bound the Lovin' Spoonful's She Is Still a Mystery at 3:43 KHJ, break-the-bank time on the Real Don Steele show pow-pow-pow-pa-dow, umph!" Though incoherent to untutored ears, the spiel mentions all the essentials: name of the show, title of song, performer, time, station identification and promotion-all in ten seconds. Marvels one executive: "He really makes clichés come alive...
...ferocious; the possession of the bride by the dybbuk is dispatched before the full terror of the assault can be developed. Marilyn Pitzele as Leye, the bride, manages to prove herself a fine actress amid the swirl. With her brash girl friends hustled off-stage and her sing-song grandmother, (Barbara Thompson) silenced by the script, Miss Pitzele displays a sullenness of movement, and a finely modulated tremulo ideal for the role...