Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs brought Libby Holman back to Broadway in a one-woman show. A quarter of a century after Body and Soul and Moanin' Low, Libby still looks youthful, her voice is still throaty and smoldering. Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program—some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives—sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist.
Vocally, Libby does well with many of her blues and gets something quick and laughing into lighter things like Cindy and...
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