Word: clowning
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...have gone by since they've been made or since we've seen them. They're the ones we still discuss, the ones that bring a smile to our faces under the most trying conditions. And sometimes, the best can even make us cry, like Pagl--Pagli--that Italian clown. You know the one I mean. (You'll know whether you're a devotee of high or low culture if you recognize the reference from opera or the "Seinfeld" episodes of a few years back...
...with theater. And if the meta-Broadway superproduction Mystere is the most theatrical of Cirque shows so far, Alegria is the most circusy, the most intimate, traditional, European. Though it boasts wondrous sets and costumes -- an aviary motif with acrobat birds in brilliant plumage -- it is dominated by the clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying his solitude until another arrives; it is a French existential drama in miniature, a No Exit or Godot...
Catering; limousines; clown rental...
...overbearing precision that suggests Maxwell Smart ranting through a bullhorn. And now he's off again, pogo-sticking or jackknifing about, slipping into his impersonations of Clint or Geraldo or a female bodybuilder or a charred fire marshal. He's a cool doofus -- a grownup version of the class clown...
Mump and Smoot manage to be little bit scary, a whole lot funny and more refreshingly original than anything to come to the A.R.T. in a long time. Check your clown prejudices at the door, and you'll be in for one of the most entertaining shows in town...