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...there is a fundamental difference of approach to these pressing problems. The American Youth Congress has adopted the characteristically oversimplified interpretation of events presented by the "leftist" youth movement today. Carried to its logical extreme it finds its expression in such things as the following songs which will be sung quite seriously by some of the delegates to the Washington Conference...
After the question period there will be a surprise athletic event and songs will be sung. The price of admission will be fifty cents...
Christ is seldom mentioned reverently in a nightclub, and His story has never been made into a floor show-until last year in Manhattan. Since then the gospel story, sung in a spiritual called John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this...
...though left-wingers will like its interpolated lampoon of a saloon-socialite singing I'm Fraught with You. Composer Blitz stein's jittery tunes occasionally develop into muscular near-melodies, are theatrically effective in the last ten minutes of the opera. For the most part they are sung, and sometimes talked, by people who were hired as actors rather than as singers. The production has a minimum of props and no scenery. No For An Answer, presented by a committee that includes several Communist fellow travelers, is scheduled for two more Sunday night performances. Marc Blitzstein would...
...Hullabaloo" is a mildly amusing show with plenty of Frank Morgan, but the gal who steals the show is an incredible-looking harpy who sings "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" like it ain't never been sung before! The story is one of those back-mike jobs about auditions, and talent, and Orson Welles's Mars broadcast. A few tears are dropped on vaudeville's grave, but the general message is that entertainment will go marching on. "Hullabaloo" is not too strong marching, though...