Word: comic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brewster also gained fame as the inspiration for "President King," the activist college president in Yale student Gary Trudeau's comic strip "Doonesbury...
...appears. Byrd is talented at assuming accents (in fact, he is the only member of the cast who attempts to do so), though perhaps he is stretching his talents in giving a Russian tramp a British cockney accent in the sketch "A Drowned Man." Byrd has a certain comic flair which radiates through all his roles and makes watching him particularly enjoyable...
...else. Nor is the world crazy about her. Teresa, who thinks Janice "should live on a black mountain and drink out of a skull," tells Huey, "You're spoiled by women. You think you got woman-love coming to you out of your destiny." But who, in a Shanley comic opera, can ignore la forza del destino? Huey has to get Janice back...
...plot and production, this is Moonstruck on the cheap. But it is hardly less satisfying, with smart, authentic turns by the rumbustious Turturro and the gorgeously desperate San Giacomo. Shanley's title is appropriate: he wants to reconcile the comic-derisive image of Italian Americans with his own comic romanticism. And like almost everyone in this poignant fable, he gets what he wants...
Director Carl B.J. Fox manages to sustain Coward's comic pace, but only during the first two acts. Still, his valiant efforts, as well as those of Simpson, Hill and Martin, keep Hay Fever's ailments from proving fatal...