Word: stritch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound a little weary here, and his wit is Princeton Tiger '24 ("If you want to play strip poke /With the girls in cabin B/ Come to me, dear boys, come to me." But in a couple of songs (Where Shall I Find Him?, Later than Spring) Elaine Stritch whoops it up as if she were really riding a winner...
Still, at times, a gallant Broadway cast has a ball among the mothballs. In the role of Mimi Paragon, social director of the S.S. Coronia, Star Elaine Stritch performs comic labors in herding a party of U.S. hicks, stuffy Britons, lushes, lady authors, child horrors and pet dogs (including one named Adlai) through a Mediterranean cruise with stops at Tangiers, Naples and the Parthenon...
Comedienne Stritch punches out her lines with the raucous authority of a pneumatic drill, and in a number called Why Do the Wrong People Travel? she is a song blaster in the megaton range. Choreographer Joe Layton paces the show with wryly inventive dance sequences, notably a goofily spastic Beatnik Love Affair. An Italian wedding party that turns into a tourist trap is a hilarious cross-cultural spoof. But the S.S. Coronia is really a ship of the desert, and it is a long dry haul between oases...
Sail Away, a new Coward musical sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, with superb choreography, delightful lyrics, and, fortunately, Elaine Stritch. At the Colonial Theater in Boston...
...ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, and much of it seemed wooden to Boston critics. But Elaine Stritch, as the cruise hostess, is full of verve. Joe Layton's choreography is superb, and the lyrics are delightful, as when they ask the ultimate question on tourism...