Word: blonde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. VIVIAN BLAINE, 74, actress; of congestive heart failure; in New York City. In the first years of the '50s, audiences were drawn to Broadway by the singing, dancing swirl of gamblers, cops and missionaries in Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. But it was a lone blond in an empty nightclub who stopped the show, poignantly, comically complaining in song of her unmarried state. The five minutes of adenoidal lyricism known as Adelaide's Lament made Vivian Blaine a White Way legend, so linked to the character of the warmhearted show girl who spoke Runyonese that...
Slowly, the plot develops; the audience watches the aforementioned Italian played by Kevin Krim, the dumb blond (Kristen Rolf), the girl with a cold (Ona Hahs) and the vulgar staff member who proudly wields her cigarette (Anna Lewis)--all under the direction of the constantly angry boss, Emily Stone's Marge (often called--surprise, surprise--Sarge). The action picks up when a health inspector, played by Mark Bagley, has to review the kitchen, which for years has passed the test. This time, things are different. Bagley portrays a slimy 70s type, who will only give the kitchen a passing rating...
...angry boss" from start to finish? The other characters often fall into the same trap. Krim and Lewis are good actors with a bad script. So, their caricatures become borderline annoying, as they do not progress during the course of the play. The audience knows that Rolf, the blond, is dumb after five minutes of the play, but then must listen to every dumb line she submits. Hahs slips on a couple of her lines, which further prevents finding any reality within her character, while hindering the comic flow...
There is even a mildly subversive touch. Some of the skinny, tired-looking models who wear them have very short blond hair and bear a more than passing resemblance to Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby. Purposely the hair is not quite groomed and the garish lipstick is mildly askew. Perhaps some of these busy women are not quite coping. Or maybe it's just as the designer said: They're bad girls...
...scheduled performances began around 6:30 p.m. The first act featured, Elmer Fudd and a strikingly tall Bugs Bunny in drag. Bugs wore a faux fur bikini top and bottom, a faux fur cape, waist-length blond braids, and a Viking helmet with horns...