Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juxtaposed between the testimonials to black striving and the satirical jabs at the white man's culture are songs of love--love between man and woman and between the races. Attack alternates with reconciliation, but it is reconciliation which dominates in the end. "Time Brings About Change" fades into "So Little Time," a plea for universal harmony, followed in turn by "Thank Heaven for You," an old-fashioned love song. Near the end, "Sermon," which prays for an era when Blacks "won't have to fight to keep from fighting," serves as a prelude to "Fighting for Pharoah," which asks...
...impressive whole, with a message that can't possibly be lost on Bostonians. And even if it is--well, Cope remains first-rate musical entertainment. Intensely memorable numbers--like the title song, an amusing look at the special annoyances attendant on being black, and the powerful opening number--dot an otherwise solid score. The dancing, on the other hand, is nothing short of spectacular--supple bodies tapping, twisting and shaking in a variety of dazzlingly choreographed sequences. The ensemble singing is less impressive, but soloists Alberta Bradford, pat Lundy Beauris Allen Whitehead and Bobby Hill all manage to be moving...
...Carter's strong supporters still regard him as an;enigma, a kind of populist Hamlet whose cross-purposes and mixed signals have so jammed the nation's sen sory network that little more than static has emerged at the receiving end. A line from a Kris Kristofferson song might well have been written about Carter's multifaceted personality: "He's a walking contradiction/ Partly truth and partly fiction...
Fortunately, unlike "the magazine that condenses"--as they mock in one song, they couldn't keep their story down to three lines. In 1944 they got their first big chance as lyricists, working with Leonard Bernstein on "On the Town." Since then, their words have spotlighted "Singin' in the Rain." "The Band Wagon," "Bells are Ringing," "Wonderful Town," "Hallelujah Baby," and "Applause...
...movie personalities are shown as fairly level. Occasionally the tensions of Hollywood or Broadway emerged onstage. "We knew this was going to be a big one," said Green introducing a number, "because our dear friend Lena Horne was going to sing it. Now we'd like to sing the song as it was sung on opening night by Dorothy...