Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exit the Beatles, their musical over. Except for their most triumphant and theatrical bit of all--an epilogue which wipes the grin off the face of a wildly contented audience and sends them home with the willies. A "Day in the Life" is no joke; all the buoyant comic comment finally gives way to a flood of tristitia mundi. Paul McCartney's sweet, detached, phantasmic voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer...
...very idea that a British frigate might be bringing a landing force to storm the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla sounded like the plot of a preposterous comic opera set to a calypso beat. But to Anguillans, the three-month-old revolt that took them out of the British-sponsored federation of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla is no joke. All week armed guards patrolled the white beaches, awaiting attack...
...Bobo is another movie in which Peter Sellers' comic gifts lose out to Technicolor. A comedian is not an object to be photographed from all angles like a fancy be-ribboned package. That fact escapes Robert Parrish, the director. Since he can't quite make Sellers a thing of beauty, he places him in a whirl of chi-chi clothes and Spanish opulence, occasionally adding a flamenco dancer. In case Sellers still sticks out as a funny man, Parrish drowns him in Exodus sound...
...hardly more than half as long as Hamlet. As it stands, it is tightly constructed. There are no sub-plots, and no excrescences. Everything deals with the prime matter at hand--even the drunken porter's scene has a far more important function than that of mere comic relief. The dramatist compressed some seventeen years into the space of a few months. More than any of the other tragedies, Macbeth moves unswervingly and swiftly, without unnecessary padding, from start to finish; and any cut removes something valuable. Yet Houseman has removed sizable chunks (including the incredibly fabulous cauldron recipe...
Harry Ritchie's production of The Cavern at Tufts succeeds on the whole, in playing with the audience's feelings and emotions in the Anouilhstyle. Daniel Greenblat (the Author) is well-suited for the role, though a bit too confident to be the comic intellect intended to act as foil for the Superintendent (Charles Siegel). The Superintendent is the advocate of the plot, always inquiring "Who killed the Cook...