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Segal, who collaborated with Joseph I. Raposo '58 on the 1958 Hasty Pudding show, was again Raposo's partner a writing "Sing Muse," which played for five weeks at the Van Dam Theater...
...review of the musical, Howard Taubman of the New York Times said, Mr. Segal can turn out sparkling lines, all of conceit and interesting rhymes.... Through Mr. Segal and Mr. Raposo he new Harvard generation may move into Broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors swarmed into Washington." The New Yorker called the show "a refreshing musical comedy" with its beater critic Edith Oliver adding. "What found irresistible was the music--sometimes like early, what-the-hell Dodgers, sometimes like early happy-go-lucky Loesser, sometimes like a parody of later inspirational Rodgers...
There are two shows, however, which avoid off-Broadway's avant-grade rut and substitute real theatricality: Sean O'Casey's Red Roses for Me, at the Greenwich Mews, and last year's Leverett House musical, Sing Muse, by Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo. The O'Casey ranks with the Broadway production of six years ago, which was prematurely ousted from the theater when a lease expired. It is a thrilling and beautiful play, to my mind one of the few masterpieces of this century...
Taubman concluded that "Although warning may be a handicap in the world of musical comedy, lively minds aren't. Through Mr. Segal and Mr. Raposo the new Harvard generation may move into broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors have swarmed into Washington." Most captious of the reviewers was Judith Crist of the Herald-Tribune, who complained that the musical reminded her of a Hasty Pudding show. The perspicacious Miss Crist then added, "Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo, two Harvard men.... did indeed concoct the Hasty adding...
Other aspects of the production left more to be desired than the acting. Donald Soule's set looked just a little bit uglier than the depressing Medieval court he intended to suggest; and Joseph Raposo's incidental music was indistinguishable from all the uninspired incidental music ever written. Make-up that was more lurid and costumes that hampered less would also have helped...