Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Town Full of Heroes...
Nichols and Pontero's Town Full of Heroes features comedic chaos with sports, sex, swords, satellites and psychotherapy. In other words, it's about modern life, and it's set in a modern home during the 1984 Olympics. Two women and five men star in this parody of the hectic 1980s, which runs through next weekend...
...being divorced from the original's cute, coy lyrics, which in life would not tumble trippingly from the tongues of underprivileged youth. The wide-eyed wonder of city life may never have been more vibrantly shown than among the World War II-era sailors aprowl in On the Town. The comic chase among cops, con men, thugs and bathing beauties from High Button Shoes improves upon the fizzy Mack Sennett one-reelers that inspired...
...original number: to demonstrate that a married couple well along into middle age can not only remain lovebirds but still get their knees up into the air. The show's archival curiosity is Mr. Monotony, a dance interpreting an Irving Berlin song; the number was dropped out of town from two successive shows. Here it is amusing, but its fate is understandable: this pure divertissement would be distracting in any musical with a plot...
From 1944 to 1964, Jerome Robbins staged such hits as On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Then the dance master deserted Broadway for another passion, the ballet. Now he returns with an anthology of dazzling numbers from his most famous shows. His producers hope that Broadway's most expensive ticket will also be its hottest...