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...Town starts with a thrill: a facsimile of the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the stage, with the orchestra perched on it. Three sailors (winsome Jose Llana, robust Robert Montano, gangly Jesse Tyler Ferguson) roam wartime New York and hook up with three gals (petite Sophia Salguero, glamorous Kate Suber, fireplug Lea DeLaria). They go places, do things, and the night air is magical, electric with fun. Wolfe brings Bergdorf mannequins and Natural History Museum troglodytes alive. Actors come with their own sound effects (taxi, subway, siren). It's like a vivid old New Yorker cartoon, animated by Tex Avery...
...such, it works terrifically, with faces as new and spirits as fresh as Comden and Green's were in 1944. DeLaria (a Merman crossed with a Midler) and Suber (elegantly, swellegantly hysterical, a Kay Kendall who can sing) remind us of Broadway's continuing lure for talent. Though the musical is a perpetual invalid, kids keep coming to New York wanting to put the show on right here. Where else? When the music's great, the jokes funny, the women sassy and the moon over Central Park gloriously full, New York is once again a helluva town...
...addition to Kenton: Charles Suber, publisher of Down Beat magazine; Willis Conover, jazz programmer for The Voice of America; Frank Holzfeind, owner of Chicago's Blue Note; Robert Share, administrator of the Berklee (Mass.) School of Music...
...Yardling" has elected Howard Suber to the position of Editor-in-Chief for the spring term. Assisting him are John P. Debicki, Managing Editor; and Allen H. Sohl and Donald K. Knudson, Production Co-Editors. Kenneth Auchincloss will serve as Sports Editor, and Robert C. Schlossman as Business Manager...
Although Shakespeare might turn over in his grave if he could see what happened to his "The Taming of the Shrew." audiences are still enjoying Cole Porter's gay musical after to years of popularity. While it was still a Broadway success, producers Saint Suber and Lemuel Ayers organized a national company of "Kiss Me Kate" and brought it to 54 cities in the United States and Canada. Now this charming bit of fantasy is back in Boston to haunt theater-goers with its hit tunes and exotic settings...
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