Word: clowning
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Faced with this abysmal mess, the actors descent uncomfortably into selfconscious farce; they begin to clown in the worst sense of the word. Still, two of the actors deserve praise for fine performanced: David Zucker (Alceste) for somehow convincing us that, despite it all, he is an extraordinarily talented actor and Charles Stransky (Philinte), for maintaining his dignity while the rest of the cast grunts and mugs their way to begrudgingly dutiful applause...
...Vivian Reed, a sizzling, sinuous singer-actress-clown-tap dancer, alone turns Bubbling Brown Sugar into a mousse to remember. She was singing gospel at churches around her native Pittsburgh by the age of eight, and studied classical music at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute before winning a three-year Juilliard scholarship. "I had aspirations of going to the Met and being Leontyne Price," she recalls, "but I switched to popular music and blues because it gave greater freedom of expression and I liked the audience." A veteran of the resort and supper-club circuit, she has a new album. Brown...
...pair of dancer-lovers. For Browne, a last-minute stand-in for ailing Gelsey Kirkland, the movies are a grand jeté from obscurity in the corps of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. To ease her jitters, Partner Baryshnikov has played the cheerful clown, and even nibbled at her ears backstage. "I was terrified at first," she confessed last week, "but it's worn...
...blue knit cap cocked rakishly on his head, his gawky arms nailing greetings to the crowd and a slack-jawed grin permanently fixed on his rubbery face, he also won the amused affection of a worldwide audience. "I don't want to play the role of a clown," said the psychology major from the University of Southern California. "But I like to involve the audience with me. I enjoy...
...empty city street at night. The figures come swirling together, "sharing energies" as Borg puts it, only to unmask themselves after the encounter and whirl apart. In "Plot," more obvious parody accompanies a more explicit depiction of the relationships between the characters. A pair of female clowns performs whenever a male clown, shod in huge flippers, blows on his horn. Two strolling figures enter and, by depriving the trumpeter of his supporting props, leave the women free from their male-dominated roles. "Sunday morning...undone" also depends on audience recognition of a familiar setting and roles. As the curtain goes...