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SWEET CHARITY. As a taxi dancer in search of lasting love, Gwen Verdon is Terpsichore's darling and fortune's foil...
SWEET CHARITY is spectacular Gwen Verdon, who proves that she is still the dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. Bob Fosse's choreography is fresh, kinetic and witty, but the book, written by Neil Simon, is consistently stale, as if he had heard rather than written the gags...
SWEET CHARITY. In this musical, Gwen Verdon proves that she is still the dancer assolnta of the U.S. stage. Bob Fosse's choreography is wry and witty and winning, but the book, written by Neil Simon, is consistently stale, as if he had heard rather than written the gags...
Sweet Charity. Gwen Verdon is the dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. She moves to the impulsive music of instinct as a child laughs and a dolphin leaps. She is Terpsichore's darling and yet fortune's foil. She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers. Verdon is verdant, and it is lucky that all is well with her, for all is not so well with her musical...
...course, there will be problems and conflicts," said Haller. "That's life. I can cook in any language." Even if he has to cook Pedernales-style once in a while, Haller will be closer to the cult of Escoffier than Verdon, who resigned in its cause. For poor René is now chowdering around the country demonstrating electric mixers and grinders...