Word: abner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abner's simple satire is often lost in this maze, and the frequent barbed references--to Ike, parity, Stevenson, Presley, toothpaste, Kim Novak, Wall St. and war--often overweigh the two long acts...
Dogpatch, U.S.A. has jumped from the comic strips to the stage. Luckily Dogpatch loses little of its good-natured fun in the transition, even if the world of Li'l Abner becomes a bit more finite and less imaginative...
...Abner is lucky to have Mr. Kidd, for the plot is not strong, there is little acting, and the songs and singing are unexceptional...
...testing ground. Dogpatchers, led by Mammy Yokum, decide to market their own alcoholic distillate, which will make them indispensable to the nation. Their product becomes a security matter and involves the mercenary interests of General Bullmoose. Only Mammy's triple whammy and a herd of relatives save Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae from disastrous marriages and actually end an egregiously complicated story...
Candide & Li'l Abner. Producers, writers and musicians have been working on a whopping list of 34 musicals-at least ten of which will probably see an opening night on Broadway. The list ranges from the operatic Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16) to a musical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide by Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman, Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and Poet Richard Wil bur. There are also such suggestions of enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner...