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...stories had disclosed that the exchange earlier this year lent Hayden, Stone $5,000,000 out of a special trust fund earmarked for investor indemnification. The attempt to keep the firm afloat failed, and Hayden, Stone was later taken over by two other firms, Walston & Co. and Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt...
...round lurches out of control. The carousel spins elliptically, dangerously, until the singer reaches an unbearable frenzy -and shatters. Audiences that witness such tours de force know what it must have been like in the '30s, when the young Lotte Lenya sang the works of Brecht and Weill, and cabaret fused with...
Ironic Couplets. The resemblance to Brecht and Weill does not end with Elly. The elusive melodies seem, at first, to be mere cloaks for Brel's verse. But they bear constant repetition -indeed, some enthusiasts have come to the Brel show as often as 56 times. As for his lyrics, the terse, ironic couplets recognize revelations beyond politics and fashion; they know that every man is an expatriate from the province of youth...
Everything else about this musical is marvelously right. What is there to say about Stephen Sondheim, the composer-lyricist, except that his songs are the most unusual ever written for the American musical stage? There are no conventional, Tin-Pan-Alley tunes here: the influences are Weill and Mahler and the melodies trail off into surprising and often jarring rhapsodies of sound...
These moments of potency, though, cannot cover up the fact this show neither moves nor capitalizes on its greatest asset, the score, (Only Andre Bishop's psychiatry song is captured with the bravura Weill's music requires.) It is nice that the Loeb has gone to the trouble to revive Johnny Johnson, but how could they forget that it was only the music that caused them to remember this forgotten show in the first place...