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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...
Mimi, effectively played by the star Elaine Stritch, is surrounded by a bevy of brats. She's the social director, also in charge of civilizing the passenger's children. One delightful incorrigible, Alvin Lush, will not succumb. As they play and sing through an alphabet song, little Alvin changes the "s" in shore to "w," and, when the children form Mimi's name, old Alvin comes along and turns the "w's" upside down. A hot sketch that Alvin...
...Father Ryan went back to Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed...
...record, he as a director and she as playwright, for seriously antagonizing almost no one, despite the frenetic, hypersensitive atmosphere of pre-Broadway rehearsals, when nearly everyone behaves?as Jean Kerr puts it?"as if they had just been rescued from burning stables." The lone, whinnying exception is Elaine Stritch, frenetic, hypersensitive star of their unfortunate 1958 musical, Goldilocks. "Jean and Walter," says Elaine, "are like the classroom...