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...soft spots. As much as one could criticize the romantic ballroom scene, I simply can't do it. Although expectedly cheezy, the slow waltz into adoration that Belle and the Beast have is enough to melt even the harshest heart. By the time the Beast--who previously climbed walls rather than stairs and who took almost a full minute to suppress his pride enough to ask "please"--tells Belle, "You're not my prisoner. You haven't been for a long time," one becomes ready to forgive and forget about the rest of the musical in exchange for that...
After Hammerstein's death from cancer in 1960, Rodgers valiantly plowed on. He worked with Stephen Sondheim on a musical, Do I Hear a Waltz? An attempt at a collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist of My Fair Lady, came to nothing. I can vouch for Alan's never having had the almost puritanical discipline that Rodgers found so satisfactory in Hammerstein. Sadly, too, with one or two exceptions, the post-Hammerstein melodies paled against Rodgers' former output. Who can say why? Perhaps it was simply the lack of the right partner to provide inspiration and bring out the best...
...location's important, but atmosphere is what defines the party. From the last waltz to the next volume of MTV's "Party to Go," formal moods can be as different as the spirits of the Houses themselves...
...about their grandkids and their prostates, snapshots of them at their condo overlooking the golf course at Plaid Pants Village, and I'll be standing in the back at Miss Lori's dance-class recital and watching my little girl, a swan in a herd of ducks, interpret the Waltz of the Flowers. My pals will become cranky geezers who can't tolerate loud voices, can't bear to be contradicted and go around snarling about the disappearance of all decent standards and the long grim slide toward Republicanism. But the father of a baby daughter is, ex officio...
Through annual events like drag night, the spring waltz and the winter swing, Adams House Committee has tried to maintain its traditional character...