Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paint Your Wagon (book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the wrong advice. It should be: Grease your wagon wheels. This musical of Gold Rush days has plenty of color, plus agreeable music and lively dancing. But with all these assists, it breaks loose only occasionally from a lumbering stagecoach of a book...
...trouble lies partly in the overall design of Paint Your Wagon, in its concern with the swarming life-the rise, feminization and decline-of an entire mining town. Though fine for choral or choreographic doings, the crowded cast is cumbrous and untidy for storytelling. For half the evening, moreover, it is virtually an all-male performance-and the show needs women almost as badly as the miners. The gals' arrival brightens things up; but, for all that, the town only seems larger, the show longer...
Paint Your Wagon, an enjoyable musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, promises light entertainment at 8:30 tonight. All about pre-gold rush days in California at the Shubert...
...Weirdly carved wagon wheels from Africa...
...after him and caught him, and, after pinning him on the ground, one knocked him unconscious with his nightstick. The other student approached the two policemen and asked to go to the station with his friend. He, too, was seized and held against a wall until a paddy wagon arrived...