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...filled with stray bits of pith, and innocent of dramatic structure. Though technically clumsy, the Kirkland House production of this laboriously didactic work has its moments of low humor and sardonic truth. Its faults, for the most part, stem from the Brechtian bric-a-brac with which director Peter Weil has burdened the show...
...luck, Groovy Kind will pay back Donnie's investment, and perhaps make a few bucks for the authors. With a lot of luck, they might join the seven Kirshner teams earning big money. The luckiest team right now is Barry Mann, 26, and his wife Cynthia Weil, 24, who wrote Soul and Inspiration as well as Kicks (No. 10 on the Hot 100) and Magic Town (No. 32); the Manns have just signed a five-year $1,000,000 contract with Kirshner...
...Peter Weil's Caliban was less lusty than I'd have made him, but that's Mayer's doing. Weil makes an intriguing connection between this and spiritual impotence. Particularly in his "'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-caliban" song when Caliban stretches his lungs and brain to their breaking point and makes nothing but noise, he expresses the limits of his subhuman character...
...Peter Weil has faltered in trying to balance the charm and moral absolutism that make up Armand. Too often he talks too fast. But a good deal of warmth comes through...
Clearing the Skin. The East Coast extension of folk rock is represented by the husband and wife songwriting team of Cynthia Weil, 24, and Barry Mann, 26. Their latest effort, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, recorded by the Animals, expresses a hoped-for freedom from the boredom of meaningless work. In Home of the Brave, they speak out for the right to wear long hair...