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...Sail Away (by Noël Coward) is carbon-copy Coward. All it needs is a carbon-copy audience from the dated musical comedies of the '20s and '30s. Sample dialogue: Englishman, in tweeds and monocle: "I've just found a cockroach in my bath." Steward: "I trust it was a British cockroach...
...winter of 1783, an ailing retired American general named Joseph Reed, a former aide to General Washington, set sail for England to pay a visit to the family of his late wife. In his luggage he carried two fine portraits done by his old friend Charles Willson Peale. Both had renown at home and might well have drawn favorable notice in Britain. Instead, they disappeared from art history...
Cuba's Communist dictatorship branded the fleeing professionals (half of the nation's doctors are gone) as "traitors" and announced that their citizenship was to be revoked. To guard his new Cuba against such treachery, Castro announced that another 1,672 Cuban youths will soon sail to be "educated" behind the Iron Curtain. He also said that he would import 100 Soviet professors to teach Cubans a new language-Russian...
...Broadway While the new shows are already trying out in the sticks, some of the better old ones have managed to stick through the summer. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues to sail along with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little...
...Sail Away, a new Coward musical sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, with superb choreography, delightful lyrics, and, fortunately, Elaine Stritch. At the Colonial Theater in Boston...