Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parikh's Arrola Derby is hilarious. The Puerto Rican accent is very funny, and he moves away from the totally spacey persona he played in last year's Whiskey Business to take a fairly central role in this year's show. His roller-skating duet with St. Clair--"I Got Hugh, Babe"--was fantastic, although I was a bit concerned that one or both of the actors would end up sprawled in the orchestra...
...although all the characters are from Brighton Beach, you wouldn't know it by listening to them. One of the actors affects an thick accent of the sort usually reserved for Jewish jokes, while another has no accent...
Fowler is dazed and perhaps injured (he has cut his head somehow), and his accent is funny. When he pulls out a couple of Federal Reserve notes to pay for his ticket, his money looks dodgy. Is such stuff legal tender in San Francisco? Doubtful. But the friendly "base ballists," as they call themselves, accept him without a lot of awkward questions and give him a berth to sleep in. When he wakes up, he stays on the train, not knowing what else to do. He learns that they are headed for New York, where the Red Stockings plan...
...eating my Clown Cookies which are really good for clowns, in walked a Clown psychologist. Clown psychologists always walk in, never out. He had a beard, spoke with an accent, and asked me questions about my Mother and Bananas. And while I really like Bananas because they are yellow and slippery, I didn't understand the Clown psychologist...
...That bird has got to be the only one on Earth with lips," said Meg in her soft Southern accent, breaking our own bleary silence amidst the din. The wompoo pigeon--named for its distinctive call--had just flown over our heads...