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...rising sailplanes already airborne and circling slowly, as if stirred by some giant ladle. Failing that, the entrants looked for the big cotton bolls of cumulus clouds-the typical sign of updrafts-or for wheeling hawks, those skillful natural riders of the wind. Having hooked a thermal, the sail-planers got from it every last inch of altitude, then drifted off on the distance runs...
Nonetheless. Loelia. Duchess of Westminster, did. So did Judy Garland. Richard Rodgers. Howard Lindsay, Russell Grouse. Alfred Lunt. Lynn Fontanne. and so on down the gold-plated guest list at the out-of-town premiere last week of Noel Coward's new musical comedy, Sail Away. The show will open in Manhattan Oct. 3, but first Coward's story, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, will probably undergo a considerable shakedown. Involving miscellaneous love stories, particularly the experiences of an American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent...
...first of Broadway's fall shows to enter its tryout run, Sail Away leads a list of productions that generally look-as they always do in prospect-impressive. Among the highlights...
...college, dance through a delightful scene on the sun deck. "Beatnik Love Affair" is what Mr. Coward calls it, and its the first glimpse of something really up to expectations. When Barnaby and Nancy are on stage, the show comes alive, and fortunately this becomes more frequent as we sail along...
...Sail Away" will be in Boston for three weeks before opening in New York in September. I have a feeling that if I were to see it again in New York, I would be impressed by a thoroughly great show. But right now, it's only good...