Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grimly comic sequence of how the long buzz got in the tape is now registering on the public mind. A vast number of Americans know a good deal about tape recorders, and they can follow the electronic saga. The final fragments of credibility in the tapes were shattered in many minds...
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S operetta H.M.S. Pinafore has been done countless times by many different kinds of companies. Although the passing of time has drained it of political and social satire, the gushing Victorian libretto and lively score still produces a good comic opera...
...current production by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, although gimmick-ridden, is a fine one, with choreography that seems to belong in a far more lavish production, and excellent performances by the principals. The crew of the famous ship whirls and leaps in a comic dance, with several planned encores. The dancing is excellent, but at times choreographer Ruth Perrenod and director Lindsay Davis push a little too hard. While Ralph Rackstraw (Thomas Fuller) sings his love Madrigal a member of the chorus and a ballerina waft about the deck of the ship. The scene is syrupy enough without...
FIVE ON THE BLACK HAND SIDE concerns assorted comic crises in a black household that is edging gradually toward the middle class. The movie is predictable but energetic. The jokes are television sitcom, but they are about topics-Africa, black militancy-that up to now have been virtually smothered in sanctimony and good will. It is refreshing to have them treated, as they are here, with a little cordial disrespect. Director Oscar Williams emphasizes the broadness and artificiality of the material and encourages his actors to play big. Clarice Taylor, as a humiliated housewife, and Leonard Jackson, as her aggressively...
Close to the midseason mark, Broadway has been parched for laughs. Well, the drought is over. A comic geyser is flooding the Plymouth Theater with hilarity. Two British zanies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, have released it, and these men are stark-raving bonkers. Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled umbrella. Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum. Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's Lib and the perils of running...