Word: yeston
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...story of an Italian film director who has sought refuge at a Venetian spa, where he is desperately trying to put together a film and at the same time make sense out of his disorderly life. Arthur Kopit's book is confusing, Maury Yeston's music is forgettable, and his lyrics are banal. Yet Tune's direction is so lively one tends to forget all that. Most directors would be glad just to avoid traffic jams with such a large cast: four boys, one man and 21 women. Tune, by contrast, rejoices in movement...
...NINE" Book by Arthur Kopit Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston...
Though his lyrics would sound puerile coming from a sixth-grader, Yeston's music is refreshingly versatile and fetchingly melodic. The masterly and inventive directorial hand of Tommy Tune is everywhere in evidence, but he has permitted the scent of high camp and low vulgarity to permeate far too much of the show. In one obnoxious sequence, a plump, leering bawd inducts the boy Guido (Cameron Johann) and three of his classmates into the rites of sex to the beat of tambourines and the priapic chant Be Italian, Intermittently spotlighted during the show is a quartet of women dubbed...