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| Michon Peacock, Michael Vita, David Chaney, Alan Weeks. (Photo: Henry Grossman.) |
A jukebox revue in
which a narrative frame loosely tied together around 40 musical standards about
love’s joys and sorrows, written by the "hugely successful partnership of Howard
Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. The songs included “Something to Remember You By,” “By
Myself,” “That’s Entertainment,” “Dancing in the Dark,” and “Shine on Your
Shoes,” most of them tunes with which a 1972 audience would have been familiar. Perhaps less well-known were numbers like "High and Low," Absent Minded," "You're Not the Type," and "Blue Grass."
The singers had
character names and the songs were staged as narrative scenelets, but the
direction often became intrusive, a number of songs were considered better
left at home, and the performances were uninspiring. Clive Barnes summed it up
as “half-baked in conception,” concluding, “That’s not entertainment.”
For the record, the
singers were David Chaney, Jered Holmes, Judith Knaiz, Michon Peacock, Vivian
Reed, Scott Salmon, Bonnie Schon, Michael Vita, and Alan Weeks.
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