Word: coronia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, at times, a gallant Broadway cast has a ball among the mothballs. In the role of Mimi Paragon, social director of the S.S. Coronia, Star Elaine Stritch performs comic labors in herding a party of U.S. hicks, stuffy Britons, lushes, lady authors, child horrors and pet dogs (including one named Adlai) through a Mediterranean cruise with stops at Tangiers, Naples and the Parthenon...
...Wrong People Travel? she is a song blaster in the megaton range. Choreographer Joe Layton paces the show with wryly inventive dance sequences, notably a goofily spastic Beatnik Love Affair. An Italian wedding party that turns into a tourist trap is a hilarious cross-cultural spoof. But the S.S. Coronia is really a ship of the desert, and it is a long dry haul between oases...
...normal to expect that a Noel Coward show will be good. And when the curtain rises above the main hall of the Cunard steam-ship Coronia, the audience is really ready to "sail away." But for five scenes the show is stranded somewhere between the 52nd Street pier and Staten Island, and one begins to wonder whether the good ship Coronia will make it to the high seas...
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