Word: comical
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...their recent production of Ted Tally’s Hooters, the student theater group Rock Hard Productions shows that lively comic performances shine through even in a small-scale production...
Courting only Cheryl, the boys ask the two on a dinner date that ends up enlightening all four on the subject of love and relationships, and provides the actors an opportunity to show off their comic flair. The play, with a plot that uncannily resembles an episode of a ’70s sitcom, moves from there through a series of predictable, but often humorous, situations...
Though the script at times drags, and the intelligence level of the humor is lower than needed to elicit laughs, the play is directed by Geoffrey Stevens ’03 with the right comic emphasis and registers as a success and an enjoyable diversion for a college audience...
...minutes, Monstropolis is a great place to live, as you survey this dense comic universe, beautifully visualized by director Pete Docter and his team. A delicatessen is a grossery, a tabloid The Daily Glob. Before a date--say, dinner and a monster truck rally--the male applies his odorant (Smelly Garbage, Wet Dog). Even minor characters have cunning personalities. Mike's girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) has five live snakes for hair ringlets, and when she idly says of her 'do, "I'm thinking of getting it cut," each reptile snaps into a horrified doubletake...
Lascivious, preposterous, acutely human: that's Shakespeare's fat knight, set to music by Verdi. Now Bryn Terfel, Wales' contribution to the gaiety of nations, has put the best of all possible comic operas on record, igniting every line with his sly wit and redwood-sized bass-baritone voice. Don't throw away your old Toscanini album--Claudio Abbado's conducting is sometimes a bit fussy--but Terfel is as fine a Falstaff as has ever lived, and Thomas Hampson is splendid as Ford, the hypersuspicious husband whom Sir John longs to cuckold. If current events are weighing you down...