The Glamour Was Missing
‘THE BEC producers and actors in The English Theatre did their best with "Musical Comedy," but it was the weakest link in a chain of surprisingly strona and at times scintillating links. Indeed, it was very little more than a catalogue of famous names-names of producers, stars, plays and tunes. Many of these would no doubt bring a reminiscent sigh to the heart of a devotee who had heard them in the "good old days," but it seemed to me that the presentation didn’t quite succeed in conjuring up the real spirit of musical-comedy-perhaps a few more singers and less talking might have helped. I came to the conclusion that musical-comedy relies on the actual and instant appeal of its stage settings, costumes, music, and all those tricks classed as "showmanship" to put it across, and that you can’t really evoke it in retrospect without losing most of the glamour,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 370, 26 July 1946, Page 14
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154The Glamour Was Missing New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 370, 26 July 1946, Page 14
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