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HERE'S LOVE. Meredith Willson's Music Man bounce has deserted him in this musical adaptation of the movie Miracle on 34th Street. It may be Christmas time in the script, but the show has all the festive gaiety of Maundy Thursday...
Here's Love is a delight in every way. Meredith Willson has given us another gem, chock-full of all the gaiety, excellent performances, good dancing, music, etc. needed to guarantee theatergoers a perfect afternoon or evening of the finest entertainment...
Here's Love. It shouldn't happen to Macy's. It shouldn't happen to Gimbels. And it certainly shouldn't happen to Santa Claus. The sorry, dispiriting news is that Meredith Willson has temporarily lost his Music Man bounce, and Here's Love has all the festive gaiety of a lead balloon...
...Willson has borrowed the book for his musical from a whimsical little cream puff of a 1947 movie called Miracle on 34th Street. Stuck with an inebriated Santa, Macy's unwittingly hires the real Kris Kringle to handle the reins as Donder, Blitzen, et al., mush through the big Thanksgiving Day parade. Kris (Laurence Naismith) stays on for the holiday rush and he is a loving wonder at dandling the kids on his knee. There are minor complications, of course, like St. Nick's spending a day or two in the mental ward at Bellevue until his credentials...
Undoubtedly beginning a trend, Meredith Willson's Here's Love (Oct. 3) -a musical adaptation of the 1947 20th Century-Fox department story called Miracle on 34th Street - has a cast that is about 10% Negro. They are Macy's shoppers, spectators, secretaries - everything but Santa Claus - and do not play the roles of Negroes as such...