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NIGHTS IN NEW YORK, proclaimed a Manhattan ticket broker in an ad last week, adding the suggestion that it would be a mighty nice thing if everybody did as Jack did. True enough, John Kennedy had dropped in for a performance of the musical comedy Do Re Mi-but that occasion was perhaps the least restless of his breakneck week. Winging about to Massachusetts, Manhattan, Washington and Florida, he examined reports from nine study groups, announced a score of appointments, went fishing, played golf, worked on his inaugural address-and came out of it all appearing eager for more...
...musicals, Camelot is very much worth seeing for "the splendor of its sets, the best of its Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower...
Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once and Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi. Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import-the jaunty and charmingly French Irma La Douce. The only other works at least technically original were dreary farces-Send Me No Flowers (closed), Under the Yum-Yum Tree, Critic's Choice. In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies...
...Mi. Although its story of jukebox racketeering is mere rundown Runyon, this musical is saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker and its occasionally amusing Comden-Green lyrics...
Actually it is the setup that pulls the show down, for it makes vice as insipid as virtue. Constantly recalling Guys and Dolls, Do Re Mi so little equals it that where the book of Guys was a blessing, Do's is a bore. And whether from an effort to even things up, or merely by contrast, the music at times seems fiendishly loud, the dancing fiendishly frenzied...