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...musical comedy. It was, in fact, all of those things. Produced at Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, A Look at the Fifties comprised an entrancing hodgepodge of tap dancing, singing, recitations and thunderous chorales providing running commentary on, of all things, an actual basketball game. It won rave reviews, packed the church for three weekends recently-then vanished. So it goes with the work of the Rev. Al Carmines, who wrote the show and is fast emerging as one of New York's finest composers of theater music. Because Carmines is also the practicing minister at Judson Memorial...
...through." This, in spite of a dazzling record in the theater--he won an Obie for The Indian Wants the Bronx in 1968 ("I wound up in the hospital from that") and a Tony for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? in 1969 ("I couldn't handle it")--and rave reviews for his performance in his first movie, Panic in Needle Park. "I don't know," he says a bit sheepishly, "I just see myself having a moment on the screen and somebody getting up and walking...
...that I expect the show to get any rave notices around the Dunster House women's table. The Wrongway Inn never abandons the stock in trade of Pudding tradition--the puns, the double-entendres, and the female ingenue who goes around complaining that her "boobalas" aren't big enough. But it does do its best to downplay the leers. But it spectacle owes more to Gilbert and Sullivan, Yankee Doodle Dandy and 1776 than you might be prepared to expect...
...then Lefty Driesell spoke even louder... What can be said about a sophomore basketball team that died?... The young Terrapins, and in particular Tom McMillen, have been praised, pampered, and publicized so much by their loquacious coaching stall--Charles G. Lefty Driesell and his trusty sidekick. George (The Rave) Ravelin--that they were in real danger of becoming the most overrated team since Wayne and Shuster...
...Yardbirds to the status of the avant-garde group of the sixties. He was the first English blues guitarist to make extensive use of the wah-wah pedal and the fuzz box (electronic devices for manipulating the sound of a guitar). Beck's first album with the Yardbirds, A Rave Up, contained three rock classics: "I'm A Man," "You're A Better Man Than I," and "The Train Kept A-Rollin...