Word: cast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DAMES AT SEA. The cast is still tapping its way to stardom in this affectionate parody of the movie musicals...
...cast is merely reflecting the film's deeply split personality. Scriptwriter-Novelist William Goldman (Boys and Girls Together) purportedly spent six years researching his subjects, yet he provides them with neither background nor a sense of their own transitional time. Director George Roy Hill abruptly annihilates the nostalgia with a scat-singing sound track by Burt Bacharach at his most cacophonous. Coupled with a mod love song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head-wedged in while Newman does stunts on a bicycle -the score makes the film as absurd and anachronistic as the celebrated Smothers Brothers cowboy who played...
...cast is fine, if not perfect. Phillip R- Allen and William Young are likable victims in the respective plays, and suporting players Bill Storey. Don Billett, Stockard Channing and Joan Tolentino go at them with shrewd, comic force...
...Wilbur opens with The Price. This is Arthur Miller's most recent play, featuring the cast that closed in it on Broadway last season. If you like Miller, you'll find The Price close to his best work, and Harold Gary gives an astounding performance as a very old Jewish furniture dealer...
...Colonial has opened with a David Merrick tryout, The Penny Wars, written by Elliott Baker and directed by a beautiful actress-comedian named Barbara Harris. Two fine actors, George Voskovec and Kim Hunter, head the cast-but the Boston notices and rampant trade gossip indicate the show is in serious pre-Broadway trouble...