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...Kevin Avery makes the most of his role as Lt. Brannigan, the stereotypical musical comedy cop whose goal in life is to track down Nathan's set-up, the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York." Both Saidel has a variety of roles: chores girl, hooher, Havana dancer. Although she says very little, her dancing is truly spectacular, and her high kicks and sultry writhing in the Havana cabaret make her one of the show's most memorable performers...
...costumes are those of punks and new romantics gone off to the circus and while some seem inspired by the recent new wave film Starstruck, others are brand new and very clever. One cast member, dancer Glenda Medeiros, wears knee-length spandex pants. Spray-painted up one inner thigh and around and down the other is the message. "There is nothing." As she rolls across the floor, spreading her legs with each tumble, the audience sees the words over and over again...
Madeiros' performance and that of fellow dancer Dean Gregory stand out as excellent. The most engaging, though, is that of Leslie Rickert, whose sense of humor and absurdity gets this production over the rocky spots. In a rendition of Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" sung to the tune of the Annie hit "Tomorrow," she sings, "Yesterday, yesterday, you're only a day away." In striking contrast, one player's style is either a poor parody of Laurie Anderson or a case of performance-art plagiarism...
BORN. To Valerie Velardi, 31, ballet dancer, and her husband of five years, Robin Williams, 30, hyperkinetic comic actor (Popeye, The World According to Garp and TV's Mork and Mindy): their first child, a son; in San Francisco. Name: Zachary. Weight...
MARRIED. Yul Brynner, 62, the long-running King of Siam now approaching his 4,000th performance as the monarch in The King and I; and Kathy Lee, 25, Malaysian principal dancer in the current show, which is touring the Western U.S.; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Francisco...