Word: tunelessness
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SWEET CHARITY (Columbia). Cy Coleman's score and Dorothy Fields's lyrics are spotty in this hit-show album. Gwen Verdon's songs sound strangely tuneless, and the show's greatest asset, Bob Fosse's choreography, is lost completely. But some of the second-lead and chorus numbers are sprightly, particularly the memorable Baby Dream Your Dream, sung by Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver...
When Judy isn't scaring up a bogus Red-underground menace to get her man, the handsome Ugly American consul (Joseph Campanella), she drones through some tuneless tunes decomposed by Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary. The hula mob masses occasionally for dance gymnastics, the kind that gives playgoers clusterphobia...
...looked every bit as lovely as Garbo. But she did more than look good: she brought onto the stage with her an air of graceful authority and confidence that almost managed to give the unhappy crew around her guts enough to say their corny lines and sing their tuneless songs. Unfortunately, as Ninotchka she is the victim of Porter's wretched book; most of the charming little conte the old movie told has been cut away, including the cultivated and charming character of her paramour (played, in the film, by Melvyn Douglas); poor Ninotchka, it appears, has been kept...
...miming the simple glories of the world for her unborn son; Dane Clark doing an amusing Method depth-probe of which hat to wear for a four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin of the '20s and '30s in a raspy voice of tuneless authority. The Brecht on Brecht company of six actors is consistently bold, often astonishing, rarely commonplace. And doing Brecht at all is a salient rebuke to Broadway's timorous titans of trivia...
...think you are? Mr. Wonderful? "Tuneless Tiger" indeed! Fabian is a nice, handsome boy and comes from a good family. I shall return...