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When it comes to vintage comedy-variety shows headlined by pop-music stars, before Tony Orlando and Dawn, Donny and Marie and the Captain and Tennille, there was Sonny and Cher.
Breezy, brazen and groundbreaking,
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour started it all.
Premiering August 1, 1971, as a six-week summer replacement series on CBS, it starred the married musical duo who rose to fame in the late 60s on the popularity of such hit songs as I Got You Babe and The Beat Goes On.
Cher (née Cherilyn Sarkisian) was sylphlike and sardonic; Sonny (Salvatore Bono) was short and silly. She cracked wise; he was the butt of her jokes. She could belt out a tune; he had difficulty carrying one. But it didn t matter. When they got together, it was television magic.
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Verdict: A tropical treat
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Chichester Festival Theatre is back, with a big summer musical that lives up to the swooning lyrics of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s terrific old showboater, and provides sustenance for those of us hungering for live entertainment.
Some enchanted evening? You betcha.
What a joy it is to see a full company, led by Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden, swirling through their paces in Daniel Evans’s ravishing and well-oiled production, with gorgeous Technicolor set design by Peter McKintosh. I still think of the 1949 musical about American marines in World War II, hanging around, waiting to fight the Japanese, in terms of the sun-drenched picture postcard 1958 movie starring Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor.