Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hold out until Friday night, you can get a look at the Duke Ellington orchestra conducted by Duke's son Mercer at nearby Sanders Theatre...
...Harvard Summer School concert, with $4 and $3 seats, should be especially attractive to Duke's fans, because Mercer is in the process of changing the orchestra's repertoire to mostly Duke's old stands and a couple of lesser known Ellington varieties...
...that takes care of Jimmy's house while he's away and takes care of Jimmy while he's there. In a little under 24 hours, Jimmy discovers he's committed bigamy, obtains two annulments, and takes yet a third wife--the Lady Kay (Shella McCarthy), sister of the Duke of Durham (Dan Strickler), a down-and-out nobleman who has been forced by estate and inheritance taxes to dabble in a bit of booze running...
...real scene-stealers are the supporting characters. Dan Strickland as the Duke is a walking cartoon of the stereotypical stiff-upper-lip Englishman (there a even a number called "Stiff Upper Lip"): he slinks around the stage in an unhealthy slouch, his face frozen in a mournful sneer. Another cartoon character with a face to match is Jansen, a Revenue Officers (Timothy Wallace), who rushes in and out pursuing those clever bootleggers, the scowl across his bulldog J. Edgar Hoover jowls growing deeper each time he's outwitted...
What Playwright Reynolds has deftly and sometimes poignantly done with in the guise of rollicking humor is to treat sport as a metaphor for the perils of imminent middle age. It is not the batters whom Duke hates the most but the loss of physical powers, of fame, of the only work he is qualified to do. Tony Lo Bianco captures every nuance of this, and his evening on the mound is a dramatically blazing no-hitter...