Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Director Donn Fischer worked out the comic business for the Order of the Mystic Marauders and the song "Lovelorn," he is doubly to be commended. In any event, the whole production showed an authoritative and experienced manipulating hand. David Beer's sets, especially the simple, effective Waterfront, showed this same humorous purpose and skilled execution...
Since the book is not amusing in itself, the one purpose it serves is to set up the musical and production numbers. This is does admirably, only to be crossed by Henry Ziegler's lyrics and Michael Lay's music. Ziegler starts each song with real promise: the words are crisp and the rhymes ingenious; then, just where he needs a punch line on each verse, he rests on his creative oars. The result is insipid lyrics, more annoying because they could shine through to redeem the book...
...happened on one sprightly melody and then devoted his time to variation rather than further originality. His only contribution of especial nore is "Clyde Has Turned to Pushing Dalsies Up," and even here, as in most of the numbers, it is the spontaneity of staging which gives the song its high value in entertainment...
Such other blunt moral precepts as "Don't get drunk" or "Keep your wits about you," added to several poems, suggest the testy future schoolmaster. But in one impious song of fraternal friction, there is a glimpse of the irreverence that shocked many a later-Victorian reader...
Here and there in his earliest work, the teen-age poet experiments with the echoes of Byron and Coleridge that gave grace to such later ethereal nonsense as the White Knight's song in Through the Looking-Glass-a minor classic if read through half-closed eyes in a willing suspension of common sense. In Clara, young Carroll writes...