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HIGH SPIRITS. Such wildly improbable sprites as Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes spook the musical version of Noöl Coward's Blithe Spirit into comic afterlife. Danny Daniels' dancers are wide-eyed and their steps nimbly inventive.
High Spirits is better as a showcase than a show. Such improbable sprites as Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes exist in the imagination of no playwright, not even Noel Coward, who wrote Blithe Spirit and directs this musical derived from it.
The light, ghostly touch is somewhat lacking from High Spirits. Act 1 foot-drags until Go into Your Trance sets the stage shivering with dancing spooks and eerily flying chairs and tables. Except for a love ballad, If I Gave You ("prides of lions"), the Hugh Martin-Timothy Gray score...
Since his opera Peter Grimes brought him to world prominence (TIME cover, Feb. 16, 1948), Britten has turned out a varied and impressive body of work, including nine other operas, a ballet, and everything from songs to symphonies, Masses to metamorphoses. Beyond composition, his talents sparkle with equal virtuosity. He...
ROUTE 66 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tammy Grimes plays an acoustical engineer in a script by Sterling Silliphant.