Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface of his comedy is the serious warning that the snowballing forces of materialism, fascism and war must be checked if the human race is to survive. When Herman's turn comes to dig into this serious core, he falls apart. His answer to the dramatic problem is a song called "Garbage," and it's not much better than the title suggests: a supposedly bitter number about the decline in beauty of refuse through the years. While it might make for some laughs (as it does in the original play), garbage is not the stuff of which pathos is made...
SHCHEDRIN: THE CARMEN BALLET (Melo-diya/Angel). Rodion Shchedrin, 35, the current Establishment favorite of Russia's younger generation of composers, wrote this ballet for his beautiful wife Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet's prima ballerina. Hearing the Toreador Song and the Changing of the Guard freely arranged for strings and 47 percussion instruments is pleasant for the first time, but no more. Shchedrin mistakes brashness for cleverness so often that familiarity with his work breeds boredom...
...Producers--Mel Brooks shows how to make a musical about "the Hitler you knew, the Hitler you loved, the Hilter with a song in his heart." At the HARVARD SQUARE...
...entertainment, Dunster's production of The Imaginary Invalid is rather successful. The good humor of the play, complemented by the translation of Robert Edgar and John Russo, makes the play move quickly along. In addition, there are three "interludes" of song and dance which add to the general festivity. But if the production held any greater ambitions than these, it seems to have lost them along...
...hairline lowered, the eyebrows thinned, the mouth made severe and straight. It is only the emotional makeup that is wrong. Lawrence was one of those rare anomalies, like Lotte Lenya or Marlene Dietrich, for whom pitch was not important. She could wander off key in every bar, yet the song's content remained pure and intense. Andrews is ten times the musician Lawrence was; her voice never varies a hemisemidemiquaver from the written notes. In the exuberant comic numbers, person and impersonator coincide. But when Julie attempts a bittersweet ballad, like Do, Do, Do or My Ship, the styles...