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Last year, the thespians of Dunster House created something of a success de scandale out of a musical comedy version of the life of Christ entitled The Greatest Musical Ever Sung: this year they've turned to the slightly less miraculous career of Richard Milhous Nixon in order to churn out a sequel. However, a good deal of the check has disappeared in making the transition from the purportedly profane to the presumably partisan. Nixon!, exclamation point or no exclamation point, is certainly nothing to write your home congressman about...
...carried a sheaf of lyrics that turned out to be the beginning of a new career. They unmistakably expressed her own feelings: they told what it is like to lose your mind, to talk to imaginary people, to consider incest and suicide. Set to her own deceptively light tunes, sung in a breathy voice and gathered in an LP album titled On My Way to Where, they sold 25,000 copies. A second album followed, which doubled those sales. A third, just out, is selling even faster. Dory has written a musical about her life, which she hopes...
President Nixon asked for the couple's favorite song, and the Army Strolling Strings struck up Fascination ("Just a passing glance, just a brief romance . . ."). McMahon had sung that song to Sonia, he said, on the night he proposed to her. When she hesitated he sang the song ten times and "was just about to give up" when she finally accepted...
...anymore). There is a White House performance of a Bob Hope Christmas tour with a bevy of gyrating girls singing the President's praises just as if he were old Charlie Kane throwing for himself a stag party. (The ends to which men must resort to hear their praises sung in an ostensible democracy!) And there is that unforgettable moment at the '68 Republican Convention in which Dick exhorts the following to "win this one for (the dying) Ike," which De Antonio intercuts with Pat O'Brian appealing to the Notre Dame football team to "win this...
...Edith Wharton and Henry James.) To grasp for a descriptive phrase. Furth seems to be in the process of fashioning a comedy of lost possibilities. Twigs--as it plays the lives of its three sisters off against one another--could almost take for a second epigraph the words sung by Benjamin Stone, the success-failure of Follies...