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...SHOWOFF. A North Philadelphia family is forced to change gears when a monkey wrench, in the form of a loudmouth son-in-law (Clayton Corzatte), is thrown into the domestic proceedings. Helen Hayes leads the APA repertory company in a skillful revival of George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy...
...SHOW-OFF is George Kelly's comedy of 1924, but it is datelessly entertaining. Its hero (Clayton Corzatte) is a braying, backslapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the grandiloquent transparency of a born liar. The actress who commandeers the stage in this APA revival is Helen Hayes in her best role since Queen Victoria...
PANTAGLEIZE. The APA Repertory Company mounts a stylistically rich production of the Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode's grotesque historical farce. From the cornucopia of his imagination comes spilling forth Pantagleize (Ellis Rabb), a Chaplinesque figure who, equipped with only an umbrella, a silly expression and an innocent greeting, manages to start a revolution...
...play has more claim to be called an American classic than The Show-Off. This season's second production of the APA Repertory Company (TIME, Dec. 8) opened in 1924, had 674 performances on Broadway, and has suffered countless amateur versions. It was filmed three times (with Gregory Kelly in 1926, Spencer Tracy in 1934, Red Skelton in 1947). And it was written by the grand old man of the U.S. stage, George Kelly, 80, actor, director, and uncle of the Princess of Monaco...
...writing plays in 1918, he had little success in Europe until the 1940s, and U.S. productions have been scanty and unsuccessful. Now Pantagleize, a play Ghelderode wrote in 1929, is seeing Broadway for the first time in a bold, resourceful production that is the opening repertory offering of the APA-Phoenix's current Manhattan season. Ghelderode may at last begin to strike roots in the same theatrical and intellectual soil that has proved hospitable to Beckett, lonesco and Genet...