Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People have written comic opera and talented people have even written funny comic operas, but no one before or since Verdi has taken a full orchestra and the incredibly indiscreet apparatus of grand opera and wheedled out of them a 100 per cent foolproof light comedy. Verdi himself only did the trick once--in his last and most brillant opera, Falstaff...
...first full-length play. On Broadway for the first time, it is as highly individualistic, if not as technically poised, as his later works. The playwright cuts through the conventions of accepted stage behavior and the rules of the well-made play to expose the cruel and the comic, the frighteningly familiar and the terrifyingly unknown in each man's existence...
...play with one hand tied behind his back. Unfortunately, half of Halfway Up the Tree seems to have been written with the tethered hand. Never so bad as to make its intermissions seem like blessed reprieves, Tree is never so good as to make its acts seem like comic rewards...
...first full-length play. Brought to Broadway for the first time, it is as highly individualistic, if not as technically poised, as his later works. The playwright cuts through the conventions of accepted stage behavior and the rules of the well-made play to expose the cruel and the comic, the frighteningly familiar and the terrifyingly unknown in each man's existence...
...walk-on role in his series. Nabors says he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but Griffith assured him that "all I had to do was act like one of those fellows down home who sit around the gas pump reading comic books." Shucks, that was easy, and Nabors soon became a regular on the show. Gomer, naturally, was a spinoff. No Belchfire. Though he will make $500,000 this year, Nabors is hardly the type to go Hollywood. His fans like to think of him as "jes folks," and he knows...