Word: goldenberg
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...Wonderful Town, the price is not too high to pay. Although its plot is formulaic and its ending pat, the Loeb's latest offering boasts a melodic Leonard Bernstein score, an occasionally witty book and, most importantly, the comic and musical talents of Rhonda Lee Goldenberg and Susan Terry, who look and sound just right as the two sisters...
WHAT LIFTS this production above the level of mere respectability, however, are the deft performances of Terry and Goldenberg in the main roles. Terry plays Ruth--the dumpy, in tellectual brunette--with zest and comic flair, displaying the versatility of a comedienne in her rendering of numbers like "Ruth's Story Vignettes," in which she portrays the various repressed heroines of her own short stories. Her dramatic contralto invests "A Sure Way"--the still apt lament of the overly intelligent and therefore "unfeminine" woman--with just the right touch of cynicism...
...fair-haired Eileen, Goldenberg is sweet without being cloying. Clad in dainty, full-skirted dresses that contrast with her sister's more careerish two-piece outfits, she sings in a lilting soprano and radiates a natural charm that prevents her from being too far overshadowed by Terry's necessarily more pungent characterization of Ruth...
...breathes musical life into an adaptation of the 1940s hit play My Sister Eileen about two sisters from Columbus, Ohio who invade New York to seek their fortunes. A melodic Leonard Bernstein score and an occasionally witty book are complemented in this production by fine performances from Rhonda Lee Goldenberg and Susan Terry, who look and sound just right as the two sisters. A good bet for nostalgia buffs and musical comedy lovers, who won't mind the formulaic plot. At the Loeb, December 11-13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
Sometimes there are interruptions. At work on Up the Sandbox, Goldenberg received daily phone calls from Leading Lady Barbra Streisand. Since shooting sessions lasted far into the night, the actress rang punctually at 2:30 a.m. "Hum me the music for tomorrow," she would request. During one predawn chat, Streisand asked Goldenberg if the movie's final measures could be extended into a song. "Sure," he replied. "Have it by 4," purred La Barbra. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalls. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word...