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...using the hoary old conventions of Pudding shows past (as well as the Theatricals' impressive $70,000 budget) to act out their own love affair with musical comedy. Siegel has come up with a nicely eclectic score--from a very G&S number like "Establishment" to a first act curtain entitled "Glory" that is straight out of Dolly or Mame. Harman's lyrics are generally up to the same par, although one or two ("Remember the Mania," "Sit Down and Take a Stand") seemed to me not far enough removed from the patriotic foot-stomping of a John Wayne television...
...from contrite, Schranz pointed out that "the Russians are subsidized by their government, and all international athletes get help from one source or another." While Brundage ignores the open professionalism of Russian and other competitors from Iron Curtain countries because he says he lacks "documentation," his case against Schranz was provoked in part by the skier's criticism of the I.O.C. for its "19th century attitudes" and for "favoring rich competitors over poor ones." Brundage in turn characterized Schranz as a "blatant and verbose offender" who is "disrespectful to the Olympic movement...
...target of the Bolsheviks, who sacked her St. Petersburg mansion during the 1917 revolution. Forced to flee the country in 1920, she later established a studio in Paris, where she taught for 35 years. Kschessinska was 63 when her farewell performance at London's Covent Garden received 18 curtain calls...
...expansion of the play within a play device, Wayward Saints concerns a trouble-prone Commedia dell'arte troupe which tries to stop quarrelling long enough to earn passage money home. The players, who have blown their own opening curtain, introduce themselves and then proceed with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second...
...claustrophobic Chicago apartment comes a mysterious stranger. Blind Jordan (Moses Gunn), who calls himself "the last of a long line of blind singers." He may be the symbol of a quest, of the black racial unconscious or of the power and primacy of blood. In a mesmerizing second-act curtain scene that builds to a crescendo of religious and erotic frenzy, Blind lordan becomes Alberta's lover. In Act III he leaves, and the two women sit in disconsolate resignation, like the heroines of Chekhov. Words of praise cannot do full justice to the play or the players...