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...HEART AND ONE SOUL. Hen Alfred Tetzlaff is the hero of West Germany's hottest new situation comedy. He is a first cousin to both All in the Family's Archie Bunker and his relative, Alf Garnett of the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. Herr Tetzlaff is a slobbish, slipper-shod metalworker. Married to an addled blonde whom he calls "dumb cow," he has a jeans-wearing daughter and a liberal son-in-law. He deplores long hair, beards and miniskirts, surefire signs of Germany's moral decline. He also dislikes almost everybody, especially...
...lifelong Republican, Sirica served as a regular speechmaker for the Republican National Committee, crossing the country delivering hundreds of campaign addresses in behalf of Alf Landon in 1936 and Wendell Willkie in 1940. During the '40s, he served for a time as counsel to a congressional investigation of the Federal Communications Commission but quit after charging that White House pressure on Democratic Congressmen was turning the investigation into a charade...
...Birnbaum, the two law students who directed and produced as well as wrote the musical, have done their best to make this prologue hang together and move--they supply frequent word-echoes to help tie the situation in Parliament to the scene at the Pankhursts's, and by introducing Alf and Charlie, two Stock music-hall types, they made a valiant effort to frame the musical interludes a la Cabaret and represent the expected male chauvinist point of view. But Alf and Charlie (John McNamara and James Dudley) never use their stereotype roles effectively: their voices and characterization are hesitant...
...order to preserve the drama of Suffragette without sacrificing the documented history that provides its backdrop, Birnbaum and Rubins have made several structural innovations in musical theater. One of these cleverly incorporates musical theater's most traditional element--the stock character. Alf and Charlie, two seedy English music hall singers and the only non-historical characters in the play, appear immediately after the overture and return periodically to personify the smug complacent attitude of Parliament and most of 19th century England toward the women's demands. Through the motif of 19th century music hall songs, they provide a constant mocking...
...music of Suffragette, written by Rubins and arranged by Peter Larson, orchestrator for the production, combines Alf and Charlie's music hall ditties with traditional theater music. With a full-pit orchestra and a strong emphasis on brass and cymbals, many of the songs have a marching, ballad-like quality which communicates the spirit of commitment that is at the center of Suffragette...