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Flies to Flies. The plot evolves, or rather meanders, in a kind of metaphysical Disneyland setting thick with mountainous stalactites and stalagmites, behind, over and under which lurk new magical wonders to behold. Fog billows, backdrops quaver with psychedelic patterns, a sword springs from nowhere, an orange fountain gushes from center stage, a tenor flies into the flies. The singing, which requires a display of vocal acrobatics that few performers can successfully negotiate, was excellent. Loudest bravas went to Christa Ludwig, whose lusty soprano and hip-swinging histrionics had bite and conviction...
Things have since gone downhill, and I'm not young and easy anymore. Now Gobel is selling pork and beans. Feiffer has stayed just the same -- perhaps I've come to resent him some for that stagnation -- and behold, those Limeys come back, and they haven't changed either. Michael Flanders, archetype of Shavian urbanity (imagine Peter Ustinov impersonating Tom Lehrer), and Donald Swann, a mad leprechaun escaped from some Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society (imagine Arthur Schlesinger impersonating Peter Pan) still jesting and warbling about Wilson and De Gaulle, dieting and astrology, parking problems and fixit-men. They...
...traveled all over the world as a merchant seaman-and has been confined in mental hospitals in both the U.S. and Portugal. He is also a religious fanatic who has dabbled in Buddhism, read the Bible, and often quotes his favorite passage from II Kings: "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof...
...Chicago had the same focus. Smith believes that the "issue will really blow open" at the next meeting of the World Council of Churches, to be held in 1968, which has picked as its subject God's promise of resurrection to all men through the Holy Spirit: "Behold, I make all things...
...sensationalism. But both at least point in the direction of reopening the theater to life, action and meaning. Whatever happens, the theatergoer should have a vantage point offered by no other art. He has a right to demand a place in the fire pit of existence, there to behold the spectacle of man in all his folly, pride and spirit...