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Whether forlornly ruminating on Alec Wilder's I'll Be Around, with a lonely piano and solitary celeste offering gentle support, or swinging easy with Cole Porter's Just One of Those Things against a background of burbling saxophones, or punching out Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's Five Minutes More in front of some antiphonal spitfire trumpets that would have made Gabrieli gladly forsake San Marco for the recording studio, Sinatra is a master of mood and vocal nuance. He can ornament a line, subtly altering its rhythm, or bend just a single note...
...fact, Fancy Free inspired the first Robbins-Bernstein-Smith Broadway show, On the Town. From then on, Robbins went from hit to hit. Over two decades he worked with the best stars (Zero Mostel, Barbra Streisand, Judy Holliday, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman) and the best songwriters (Bernstein, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim) in classic shows such as The King and I, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing and Gypsy...
...Jule Styne; lyrics by Carolyn Leigh...
Despite the success stories, doctoring is often not enough. Composer Jule Styne believes that great hits-My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line-were great from the start and only needed polishing. "Ninety percent of plays that call in a new writer and director fail," says Styne. "Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin. "If you're lucky, the show will be mediocre...
While Composer Jule Styne thumped the piano in accompaniment, Gypsy Star Angela Lansbury belted out a chorus of Everything's Coming Up Roses and happily observed: "The whole complexion of the joint is changing." For one thing, the Lambs had recently dropped a century-old rule that denied membership to women. Among the first to join: Jacqueline Onassis, who contributed $25,000 to the club's depleted treasury...