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Married. Isabel Bigley, 25, Broadway musicomedy star (Me and Juliet, Guys and Dolls); and Lawrence Barnett, 39, a vice president of Music Corp. of America, top U.S. musical talent agency; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norwalk, Conn...
Best Plays (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Margaret Phillips and Paul McGrath in There's Always Juliet...
...Other Love (Perry Como; Victor). One of the better ballads from the new Rodgers & Hammerstein show, Me and Juliet. Crooner Como is in top form in the Romeo role...
...Juliet concerns a show within a show in which backstage romances merge into full-stage routines. There is a workmanlike Rodgers score, with one schmalzy tune, No Other Love, and such lively show music as It's Me and Keep It Gay. There is an agreeable cast, gaily paced by George Abbott, gaily dressed by Irene Sharaff. There are some good Bob Alton dances, and Joan McCracken not only steps up the dancing but notably brightens the show. And Jo Mielziners "problem" sets are fascinatingly expert...
...perhaps because Rodgers & Hammerstein have gone at show business with no pungency or point of view-as fainthearted satirists, routine sentimentalists. Where they might illuminate, they merely echo; and their show cannot be excused its multitude of clichés because a few are kidded. Me and Juliet is neither magical about its subject, nor the McCoy...