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Memphis Bound (lyrics & music by Don Walker & Clay Warnick; book by Albert Barker & Sally Benson; produced by John Wildberg) was first conceived as a swing H.M.S. Pinafore, later converted into an extravaganza about a Negro troupe who put on Pinafore to get their grounded showboat (the Calliboga Queen) off the Mississippi mudflats. But their version proves too much for their lady producer, and she bangs down the curtain...
Musicals may come and go, but Gilbert and Sullivan are good forever and Vinton Freedley seems to have discovered the fact. The program for "Memphis Bound" lists Don Walker and Clay Warnick as authors of the lyrics and music for Mr. Freedley's latest production, "with a grateful nod to W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan." Sir Arthur and Mr. Gilbert deserve more than a grateful...
Some of the songs are new--and to the everlasting credit of Messrs. Walker and Warnick, they stack up pretty well against the efforts of their better-established competitors. The very best number is a new one, sung to utter perfection by Robinson, "Growing Pains"; and the authors also hit the top with a mock-serious ditty called "Love or Reason...