Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mother Goose (Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Arch without being cute, this trio skips through the old rhymes like verbal jump ropes. In gleeful self-amazement, Actor Ritchard triple-tongues Peter Piper's pickled peppers ("I didn't break down, you see"). Hershy Kay's musical punctuation is pert and pertinent, unfailingly delights, never intrudes...
...pleasant things include some stylishly medieval Hanya Holm processions and dances, a gleaming Great Hall investiture of knights, some scattered Lerner lyrics and Loewe songs. But Camelot falls short of sophisticated glitter and shorter of romantic glow...
...virtues of this show well outweigh its faults. The costumes, designed by Tony Duquette and Adrian, and Oliver Smith's sets combine with lighting by Feder and choreography by Hanya Holm to produce several extremely effective scenes. In a way, it's a case of something being so far Out that it's In: often, one is repelled by large amounts of money spent on garish costuming and lavish sets, but producers Lerner, Loewe, and Moss Hart have obviously spent so much money, and spent it so well, that the result is a pleasure...
...years off if he had wished. He was as rich as Loewe was poor. But he was working as a radio scriptwriter on "a schedule so tight," he remembers, "that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights." He wrote daily sketches for Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, material for Victor Borge and Hildegarde, turned out great hunks of audiopageantry for Philco Hall of Fame and Cavalcade of America, all the while keeping dark the personal secret that he was an heir to the loverly fortune that his father (once an Atlantic City dentist) and uncles...
...cleverness there lurks no substance whatever, while mixed in with it is something distastefully meretricious. Much more than it is frank or funny about sex, the play seems merely lip smacking. Eileen Heckart is properly brittle as the groom's mother, and as the unmarried one, Celeste Holm, when not forced to "be a noble heroine, is a delightful comedienne. But Invitation to a March is as inconsequentially contemporary as a beach house, and about equally built on sand...