Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diabolique. A wonderful little horror comic in French-with a moral: you can lead a corpse to water, but you can't make it sink (TIME...
...enthusiasm and musical excellence. Bruce MacDonald was a charming Point, whose pleasantly intimate manner with the audience, especially in such numbers as "I've jest and Jibe," was thoroughly captivating. Playing a tricky "tragic clown" role, he managed to convey a bit of pathos without spoiling the essentially comic nature of the part...
...romantic hero, Colonel Fairfax, Jerry Brown was faced with the dilemma which occurs in G. and S.--that the romantic hero tends towards insipidity compared with the comic hero, who always holds the audience's primary interest. Brown overcame this dilemma partially by playing the role for laughs in a rather moonstruck, Russel Nype manner...
...Altshul as Sergeant Meryll, whose hearty lustiness dominated almost every scene that he was in. His second act duet with Marietta Perl, who made the most of "shrew" part as Dame Carruthers despite a little difficulty with her voice range, was the high point of the show from the comic standpoint...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TIME...