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...When Bea Lillie shook Broadway with her one women show last fall, she proved beyond question that she was the funniest woman in the world. Victor Borge has also prepared a solitary program of music and comedy which demonstrates just as conclusively that he holds the male title...
...packed houses at Wonderful Town are as entranced by Rosalind's creaky dancing as by her croaking voice. Any one of the 13 chorus girls can dance better than she does. But, like such great performers as Ethel Merman and. Bea Lillie, Rosalind Russell represents the triumph of personality over technique: she communicates to her audience all the rewarding warmth and humor of shared experience...
...Evening with Beatrice Lillie is something that large numbers of people must have long and devoutly sighed for. As the funniest comedienne alive, Bea has been providing delightful memories for 30 years-from as far back as her Chariot's Revue "patriotic" number ("March with me ... march, march, April, May and June"). That military triumph, like some of Bea's others, is much too elaborate for the present intimate doings, where-except for Reginald Gardiner with his clever imitations-the Lillie virtually goes it alone. The evening is strewn with things that she alone...
...more than discreetly hilarious: Bea often couldn't be funnier, but most assuredly her material could...
...current Lillie evening has many fine, authentic Lillie moments. But much of the material-skit or song, new or old, even as famous as Three Little Fishies-is either not very good in itself or not what Bea can do best. In the past, she has been most glorious upsetting full-stage apple carts, playing hob with vast production numbers; the atmosphere here dwindles, in more ways than one, to that of a nightclub. Bea's gifts at times seem almost as wasted as they are wonderful...