Advantages: Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, Alan Jay Lerner's lyrics, Frederick Loewe's music-most of it. Disadvantages: Some shopworn, predictable tunes and weak orchestrations.
Perhaps there's something to be said for more circumspect times. Today, all tabus are virtually gone, despite the misapplied and misguided efforts of those (screaming banshees called) extreme right-wing conservatives. Truly, when nearly anything and everything, no matter how outrageous and crass, can be sung or spoken or presented on the stage, where's the need for imagination and resourcefulness, clever lyrics and naughty innuendo in today's plays?
... ...were written by American lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. Unlike the bland texts of such hits as 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Miss Saigon,' 'Jesus Christ, Superstar' and their kin, 'Camelot' virtually oozes sly and happy and not-so-happy wit through every phrase. Anyone still remember what comprised genuine wit-the kind which one rarely hears on the stage these days? But back to the irony of my premise: yet why is there still so much mediocrity in the lyrics ...
zerbine28 22.04.2005
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