Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freezing. Who's got a drink?" said one of the men. Virtually everyone in the room had a glass in his hand, but the trio stood there for a moment without even getting a reply. Finally, a Dartmouth student standing near the door reluctantly handed a flask to one of the men. He took a drink from it, passed it to his companions, and then introduced himself as a movie producer in town to make a Cinemascope short on the Carnival. The redhead, he said, was named Charlotte. Gardner, and the other man--the one just now taking a drink...
Thigamajig (Mel Powell Trio; Vanguard LP). Another in Vanguard's fine jazz series. Powell's piano and the trumpet-playing of Boston's Ruby Braff have a bright fresh effect, both in the oldies, like You're My Thrill, and in the fanciful modernities of Powell's own Bouquet...
...playgoer must be prepared for sporadic visits by the devil's cohorts, Sebena, Serena, and Salambo. The first two are scantily-clothed nymphs, who do lusty dances in the priest's parlor under fittingly blue lights. The latter, Salambo, is a messenger dressed something like the Batman. If this trio is expendable, one could also make a case for the deletion of all God's little codgers, including two stuffed donkey's a bird, and someone dressed up as a lion...
sings moving, melodious recitatives. Other standouts: some impressive liturgical choruses, a bawling jukebox sequence, and a sweet trio of Tuscan songs artfully written in an improvisatory manner...
Anyone remembering Beat The Devil or Porter's own gangsters in Kate, knows the potential in the three bumbling agents who are sent out from Moscow to retrieve an errant comrade. The trio is wasted, however, in a show which can afford no waste; their "Siberia" number is as flat and as cold as that overworked land itself. In two other instances, "The Red Blues" and "Too Bad," they are joined by the entire chorus for masterpieces of staging and action. Since the audience is at no time caught by the musical, this brilliant motion is another waste--more pointless...