Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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French farce is customarily associated with the bedroom. There are no bedrooms in Scapino, but the evening is filled with sheer comic bedlam anyway. The Young Vic presented this Molière farce earlier in the season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It has returned in a hands-across-the-sea gesture to aid the financially beleaguered Circle in the Square Joseph E. Levine Theater. Scapino should prove to be just the right box office tonic...
...Royal Ballet. The chief magician was Rudolf Nureyev, the company's conspicuous permanent guest artist. Following Kenneth MacMillan's disappointing Manon, which inaugurated the Royal's five-week New York-Washington, D.C. season, Nureyev scored a double success. He danced an impressive debut in the comic ballet La Fille Mal Gardée. On the other half of the program was a scene from La Bayardère, the "white ballet" he restaged at Covent Garden...
...fashioned a first play that is robust, touching, funny and nakedly honest. The Sea Horse divides neatly into two parts that might be subtitled "Spar and Tell." The first act is a land of sexual scrimmage with earthy roughhousing on Gert's part and some wild and woozy comic foolery on Harry's. The tone is that of a mating between Steinbeck and Saroyan...
...round setting. The five characters work quickly but too loosely, relying on a casualness that often lets the show get by as a friendly get-together rather than a plausible dramatic situation. The intital comedy, evolving around a buzzing airplane, establishes Andy Rosann's Bill as the comic of the group-the man who creates the funniest gags, and makes the even funnier gestures. Gradually the rest of the cookout's participants warm up to Bill's level with Cindy Cardon's Pat and Lorenzo Mariani's Howard forming a chilling team of innocence and brutality...
...turn each character receives air time for a few minutes of monologue, of which Rosann's was most impressive. The glib prankster has the timing of a well-practiced magician; he turns banal lines into comic magic. Cardon and Stone have their moments too, especially when they alternate in reciting a tale of their unexpected urge to relieve themselves on the wide-open beach...