Word: verdon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. As a dance-hall dolly whose heart is leaden but whose feet are mercury, Gwen Verdon is effusive. The slickness of Bob Fosse's choreography is suffusive. What there is of Neil Simon's book is elusive...
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...
SWEET CHARITY. Dancer Gwen Verdon once more erupts like a volcano on the U.S. musical stage, and Bob Fosse's choreography is sizzling with sly social comment, bubbling with inventive wit. Neil Simon's book, alas, lies dormant...
SWEET CHARITY is kept aloft by Dancer Gwen Verdon, a one-woman whirlwind propelled by Director Bob Fosse's breezy choreography. Unfortunately, Neil Simon's book about a goodhearted doxy duped by love is woefully becalmed...
SWEET CHARITY is kept aloft by Dancer Gwen Verdon, a one-woman whirlwind propelled by Director Bob Fosse's breezy choreography. Unfortunately, Neil Simon's book about a goodhearted doxy duped by love is woefully becalmed...