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...slick mouthpiece, Billy Flynn (Jerry Orbach). This scarcely matters. What matters is the erotic poetry in motion that uncoils whenever Verdon and her sister in crime Velma Kelly (Chita Rivera) do their solos and duets. They pace the show with spunk incarnate. The chorus is jazzily bacchanalian, and Patricia Zipprodt's eye-riveting costumes swirl right out of a decadent Brechtian Berlin. Chicago is a cinch to take a bite out of the Big Apple...
...spectacular staging of Pippin makes the production-credits list a roll call of honor. Tony Walton's scenery functions with elegant heraldic humor. Patricia Zipprodt's costumes are eye-blinking dazzlers, as are Jules Fisher's lighting effects. But the star of stars is Choreographer-Director Bob Fosse. This man has the sixth sense of dance, and he uses it with undeviating intelligence. Call him the Balanchine of the musical comedy stage and you will not be far off the mark. Fosse knows that at its core, the American musical celebrates collective energy. The force that Fosse...
...attempts to recreate Georgy Girl's stylish London also fail. Jo Miclziner's sets have no unity and seem rather a grabbag of Sean Kenny schtick with a few Oliver Smith staircases thrown in. Patricia Zipprodt-the best costume designer in the business-has managed to add to the trampiness of Meredith by giving her a succession of booker-ish rather than Mod-ish outfits. Peter Hunt's staging is in the best Hot Spot tradition...
...show stars Jo Van Fleet as the possessive Mamma of the title. Making her first entrance in an eccentric mourning outfit (beautifully designed, like all the others costumes, by Patricia Zipprodt), she looks for all the world like the Black Lady from a Charles Addams cartoon. She goes through the show in reliably firm control. And she has mastered the art of gesture, and of moving--whether it be simply walking or a waltz or a Latin American rump-shaker. Vocally, she is not yet a hundred per cent effective; but she gets a good deal out of her monumental...
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