Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running quite a few paces behind these works are the mediocre Bless You All (Mark Hellinger) and Cole Porter's Out of This World (Century). Comedian Charlotte Greenwood has kept Porter's musical in the black...
...Lover for Me, are pleasant enough, but not really exciting, and the Porter lyrics generally display his signature without his skill. Hanya Holm enlivens the show with her decorative dances. And Out of This World brings back to Broadway, after 20-odd years, likable, prancing, perpendicular Comedienne Charlotte Greenwood. But it more or less brings her back in chains...
...outstanding offender is the book. The show offers less a new version than a misguided variation of the Amphitryon story. Jupiter (George Jongeyans) covets a young American girl on her honeymoon, while son Mercury (William Redfield) is under orders to snare her to Greece, and wife Juno (Charlotte Greenwood) is hot on Jupiter's trail down the slopes of Olympus. With its studious smut and clanging innuendoes, the whole thing is far more down-to-earth than even Jupiter's expedition would license. The librettists apparently fashioned their jests for audiences whose idea of sophistication is not believing...
Charlotte Greenwood makes a triumphal return to the musical comedy stage as a frustrated Juno, forever pursuing her errant husband. When she is on, she outshines everyone else; she and she alone exploits Porter's songs to their fullest. Her singing, dancing, and her mugging and remnants of a style of musical-comedy performance that prevailed in the expansive '30's, and which might well be revived now. David Burns is also a pleasure to watch as Niki Skolianos, formerly of South Chicago, who operates the inn and a poppy plantation on the side. Other praiseworthy performers are William Redfield...
...Brilliant" is the only word to describe Lemuel Ayer's scenery and costumes, Charlotte Greenwood's performance, and Cole Porter's new score. Almost the entire remainder of the production maintains only a slightly lower standard. Now is the time to write your friends in New York to buy their tickets...