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Otto Griebling, the world-famous Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus clown died yesterday in New York, after half a century in the circus business...
Jerry remembers: "Breslin's book had portrayed Joey as a clown. Then when I met Joey, I was absolutely amazed to find out that maybe he had been a wild kind of nut before he went to prison, but something had happened to him inside. He'd done nothing but read there, and it was startling to talk with him." Marta adds: "When he asked me whether I preferred Camus or Sartre, I almost fell into a plate of spaghetti...
...CLOWN AND WAIF. This is the particular province of the U.S. musical theater. Every female superstar launched on the American stage in the past decade has been cast as a clown or a waif. Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut as the office-girl clown, Miss Marmelstein. in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and graduated to the Fanny Brice clown in Funny Girl. Liza Minnelli enjoyed her first solid success as a waif in Flora, the Red Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret...
...good sense. Gina Heiserman has this strenuous part, which demands not only the lead in every scene but excruciating comedy routines delivered straight to the audience, reminiscent of Lauren Bacall's opening in Applause. She is the continually frustrated joker, reminiscent of Gary Lewis's hit Everybody Loves A Clown. Finally she's stuck with a dramatic role frankly reminiscent of The Edge of Night. Riddle it all with Barbara Streisand and you have The Bull Gets The Matador Once In A Lifetime. For a first production of an original play by a young author and a dewy cast...
Indeed, it could be said that no living artist combines the roles of magician and clown with as much skill as Oldenburg - except, obviously, Picasso...