Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loeb Experimental production, though, while not offering anything approaching incisive parody, provides enough comic moments to keep the audience from worrying too seriously about the script's literary pretensions...
Sammy is running. He runs into a Soho strip shop, where as compere and comic he dishes the dirt to the usual dirty old men ("We take you now to the Garden of Allah-in case you'd like to do a bit of planting"). Then he runs off the stage and up to his flat, where he makes a few fast phone calls and moves a shipment of bootleg bellywash. Then he runs back to the skin parlor for the second show ("This old slag takes care of her health...
...infrequent moments of excellence in this tragic-comic musical, based on the life of actress Laurette Taylor, are directly attributable to the irrepressible spirit of Mary Martin, which occasionally manages to break through the bog of mediocre music, a trite score, miserably drab sets, and a despondent story...
...best in one of the few comic sections of Jennie, Miss Martin finally takes the stage alone to play a sultan's wife in a vaudeville routine. Cavorting around the stage in a manner slightly reminiscent of Nellie's "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" from South Pacific, she elaborates on the hardships of being one of the sultan's many wives, singing one of the scores's best songs, "Lonely Nights." She complains that "The Sultan is my master and I wish he would make his rounds faster" and "I yearn...
...Dennis O'Keefe, tries to convince his family to come with him to his recently acquired theatre (a dilapidated church) in Seattle. His song's lyrics, "There's no battle, no rattle, in Seattle" followed by a boorish "Boom, boom, boom" are equally distasteful. Occasionally, in some of the comic routines, and in Miss Martin's warm expression of her love for life, in "Before I Kiss The World Goodbye" the score redeems itself...