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...title role, Jim Dale is the traditional wily scamp of a servant. He is sassy, resourceful and clever, the sort of endearing rogue who puts his fat, pompous and moneyed betters in their places. At the behest of two lovelorn sons with two miserly fathers, Scapino engineers an endless repertory of deceptions with a blazing battery of slapstick. Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught...
...people in the Young Vic Company are as nimble as acrobats and perform with a swinging verve and a broad comic style. The nimblest of all is Dale, a versatile actor, British TV comic and composer (Georgy Girl). In his facial contortions and his airborne, aisle-hopping feats, he is a direct descendant of the great physical clowns-unforgettables like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. It does not require much prophetic vision to foresee that Jim Dale will share the same renown some day. · T.E-K...
...Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--at the New Theater just down the street--is another fine play with some similar strengths, about a Christ-figure getting himself crucified by the authoritarian Big Nurse and timid inmates of an insane asylum. I'd go with That Championship Season--it's more naturalistic and strikes even closer to home, I'd say--but maybe that's just my mood...
...Jenkins broke into the first division of great Harvard scorers during the '73-'74 season, surpassing Bill Dennis to grab fourth place on the all-time career scoring list. Jenkins's varsity total, 1077 points, leaves him behind only Dale Dover (1201) James Brown (1242) and Keith Sedlacek...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman out of Ken Kesey, is probably more absorbing than any of this, though, and it should also be enough to convince you not to go crazy just yet. 7:30 at the New Theater on Holyoke Street...