Word: raposos
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Less than three weeks after it closed at Leverett House, Sing Muse has been signed for a New York run. An option on the musical comedy by Joseph Raposo '58 an Erich Segal '58 was taken by Robert D. Feldstein, who is planning an off-Broadway production for the early fall...
...Raposo and Segal originally pooled forces in 1958 when they collaborated on the Hasty Pudding Show, The Big Fizz. Last year they wrote Voulez-Vous, a financial failure which both authors attribute at least in part to the CRIMSON's lukewarm review...
Although Segal's book itself may only be an excuse for his songs, it's a clever excuse indeed. Moreover, those songs need no excuse in the first place. Set to Joe Raposo's catchy tunes, they string out into a truly hilarious cabaret-revue...
...much. Instead of wanting one more verse out of every song, the audience is satisfied that it has had just enough. And this means that they've been given one too many. Similarly, Segal is having such obvious fun with language that he often does pun indiscriminately, and Raposo's music at times becomes too complementary to the lyrics, like chocolate syrup poured over chocolate ice cream...
...skillful, carefully constructed, modern realistic comedy: not the sort of play which gives tremendous scope for a director to exhibit his virtuosity. Jean-Claude van Itallie has not tried any tricks, but he has kept the production moving with smooth skill through John Beck's lavishly shabby set. Joseph Raposo's music borrows its manner and some of its substance from Kurt Weill, and like almost everything else about this production, it is just right...