Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rich Friedman and Todd Wilkinson, both juniors, hold the seven and eight places on the varsity. Sophomore Brain Davis, often exceptional, often erratic and sloppy, is playing number nine, and Mike Tarre rounds off the team...
...with unaddled grey matter. Near Georgia Tech, a drive-in-eatery caled The Varsity draws the most viewers with its four tube rooms equipped with desk-armed chairs to encourage eating. And the type The Varsity mostly draws? "It's the fat boy who's a real brain; he's there all the time," says one senior. Of course, as a University of Minnesotan sniffs, TV is also "for the 'C-C-ers' and down. The rest are too busy with the books to be socked down before the one-eyed god." Actually...
...score is at war with itself. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics are brain-dry and sometimes brain-shy; Richard Rodgers' music is moon-washed, and sometimes soggier than the Grand Canal. The choreography is either a slight or an oversight. In Waltz, company loves misery. The unhappy lovers consort with tour-frazzled Babbitts and an expatriate couple whose marriage is sinking considerably faster than Venice...
...Balls, by Paul Foster, stars two spotlighted pingpong balls that throughout the play swing back and forth over the pitch-dark graves of two long-dead though volubly tape-recorded sailors. Dramatically grave-robbed from Beckett, this is a good isometric exercise for the neck, but lames the brain...
...about him. Gagliano has a gift for capturing the acrid flavor and jagged tempo of the city's mental and physical derangements. A blind man, his white stick rattling frenetically, goes into a convulsive attack of "the crazies" as the city's noises slash unendurably at his brain. A girl (Linda Segal) is raped by a pair of subway toughs, and the agony of it is its casual lack of horror. Despite the madness and the hurt, Playwright Gagliano keeps a funny tongue in his head, and, after a fashion, even redeems his antihero...