Word: styne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicals will be lifted from just about every source but the Moynihan Report. Catch My Soul is a rock version of Othello. Producer Mitch Miller will revisit John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Arnold Bennett's Great Adventure becomes Darling of the Day, with music by Jule Styne. Plays returning in musical incarnation: The Happy Time, with fail-safe Director Gower Champion and Robert Goulet as leading man; and The Madwoman of Chaillot, by the same team (Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, Composer Jerry Herman) that converted Maine. And now, reversing the old pattern, Broadway is borrowing...
...numbing slim-wittedness of Arthur Laurents' book seems to have infected the score: the songs evaporate as they leave the orchestra pit, despite such potent tunesmiths as Composer Jule Styne or Lyricists Adolph Green and Betty Comden. Some of the dances catch fire, notably a G.I. close-order drill done with smoking speed to syncopated shouts, and in a show that is more candied than candid, Leslie Uggams and Robert Hooks perform with unblemished, infectiously likable honesty. Apart from being lovely to look at, Uggams has a shy sly smile that burgles the theater house. She can cradle...
...Jule Styne, D.S.O., composer, producer...
...MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A repeat of a special (of Christmas past), with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill and Scrooge by Magoo...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Bells Are Ringing, MGM's 1960 attempt to recapture the Broadway hit. They missed, but Jule Styne's score is still fine and Judy Holliday is her marvelously memorable self...