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...this production were one step worse than it is, people would call it a beautiful failure. Director Tom Babe, they would say, tackled a bulky, outdated script with an unholy number of important parts, and not enough time to rehearse the kinks out of all of them...
...know what Babe thinks of the play; one sensed an ambiguous reaction on his part. On the one hand, he has been respectful towards Frank Wedekind, leaving Springs Awakening almost uncut where cutting would have been kind. On the other hand, he has Brechtified the production with prop-changes by actors and a general milling-about on the stage and singing of songs before each of the three acts...
These three figures are set off, as Babe sees it, by a chorus of old people--teachers, parents' a priest--who carp at the children's behavior and eventually drive two of them to death and the other close to it. There is also a pack of boys, and three other young girls--about twenty parts, in short, in any of which a bad performance can spoil a scene. Some fine actors have taken on these roles--Emily Levine as Mrs. Gabor, in particular, Mark Ritts as Johnny Rilow, Susan Channing as Ilse, and Patricia Hawkins, who creates a character...
...said to Bogie in To Have, and there is hardly a man alive over 40 who didn't wish she'd answer his whistle. Bogie married her (she was his fourth and final wife), and for thousands of nostalgic fans she has been Bogie's babe ever since...
...singer Daumyn O'Theerie rockets to fame with his controversial recording of "Don't Ya Negotiate, Baby." Thousands of wives and girlfriends of newly drafted servicemen buy the record. Lyrics include: Don't ya negotiate, baby, I just don't know what to think, babe, Like them creeples say to do. 'Bout them pacificisters and such. Let our love burn like napalm, baby; We're keepin' US offs the brink, babe, Let it tingle like Asian flu. And, oh yeah, I love ya so much...