Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unknowns", which are usually well known after a few Dunce concerts, the group has its own favorites. They like to begin a program with something short, like "I Got Along Without You Before I Met You, I Can Get Along Without You Now." Another favorite opener is "Behold the Bridegroom Cometh", which features bass Roy Colemen's solos in an unbelievably low voice range...
...Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." -Psalms...
...Behold (by John Patrick) is a dull bit of shenanigans dusted with funny remarks. It introduces an elderly writer-celebrated, cynical, sick-who, after arranging to try to communicate with his doctor after death, lets a brand-new maid cook a meal that will kill him. Dead in a jiffy, he turns ghost, is joined by the shades of an Indian maiden, a Southern belle and a concert pianist. For two more acts, while the flesh & blood housemaid and doctor amble towards the altar, the four spirits aimlessly cavort about the stage...
...story, Lo and Behold goes steadily downhill, from a mildly sophisticated fantasy to a shamelessly mechanical farce. As a play, it goes nowhere at all: dead and alive alike merely cruise the stage, and -worse yet-when traffic lights are green for one group, they are red for the other. The love story is fatuous, the writer (Leo Carroll) gets lost in the crowd; and though Playwright Patrick is more than capable of a funny line, his ghosts make anything but a funny lineup. Only the Indian, thanks to saw-voiced Doro Merande, succeeds...
...Behold it, then pholosophize...