Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compensation-in terms of revivals and a good deal else-came from off-Broadway. Last season's white hope, the Phoenix Theater, turned a rather dull grey -though thanks to Comic Nancy Walker, who was very funny when she had material and in places when she hadn't, the largely uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival...
...wishes for herself. She becomes king, then emperor, but when she demands that she be made God, the whole strike-it-rich setup collapses. Composer Stein, 44, who is a conductor and a teacher at De Paul University School of Music, saw it more as a serious than a comic affair, and most of the music had a mournful cast...
...beads as the Production Code, will permit, promenades along a runway above her audience, using every classic nuance of the stripteaser's hesitation walk while, as comedy relief, High Priest Louis Calhern lurches onstage in a funny hat and baggy costume, just like an oldtime Dutch comic at Minsky...
...Like God." Although the manual warns that "the Bible, the Prayer Book and the Hymnal will be essential tools in your teaching," the chief aim of the series is to express religion in everyday, sometimes even in comic-book terms. For six-year-olds, there are three gaily illustrated booklets of stories about Tish and Mike, whose adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement...
...plainly a belief that all music aspires toward a brass band's exuberance, all locomotion toward a fire engine's clanging speed. And there is a very proper belief that one Gwen Verdon is the equal of a hand-picked chorus line, a spotlighted siren, a surefire comic, and a sought-after premiére danseuse...