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While Burgess at times lampoons Freud as much as everyone else in the story, he lauds the psychoanalyst's desire to see through the sanitized exterior of his culture to the real nature of man. The slapstick format, occasionally as predictable as the medium it parodies, spares us from excessive psychobabble, presenting instead humanity as it is, not as we would like to perceive it--with the author unmistakably siding with the former...
...true story of Dale Jackson, a Black Vietnam veteran and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, who entered an Army hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. In the play. Jackson (Reggie Montgomery) is confronted by an understanding psychologist (Ralph Pochoda). Their contact peels layers of resistance away from his cool exterior. Montgomery's riveting performance exposes a man consumed by guilt--guilt over bother his unconscionable actions in Vietnam and the fact that be alone of all his soldier friends survived to be actually honored for those deeds...
...bearded Natasha (Temple Dickinson), whose female name is the closest the play comes to transvestitism. The fat actor also eats from a Purina dog chow bag and smiles eagerly at the expression "you're beating a dead horse." Agent Orange (Nancy Frantz) bursts out of a frigid, schoolteacher's exterior in the sultry song Mean Streak. Dean Dean (Phil Kraft), the absent-minded administrator, sits naked in a kiddie pool and sings to his rubber duck about the comparative rigors...
...shell, to be hung on eight giant vertical masts, will be of steel and aluminum, with translucent panels that will give the structure a traditional Japanese air. The exterior alone could cost $200 million. There was a cost overrun on an $87 million contract with British Steel for girders strong enough to support a rooftop landing pad for a helicopter. Foundation construction has begun, and some $460 million in contracts have already been let. But steel has yet to rise to a point where it can be seen above the fenced-off building site on landfill in Hong Kong harbor...
...dancing and grown men dressed as women. The singing, on the whole, is quite many of the show's female numbers suffer from cracking. The exception is Robinson who as Helen the show with his her (dare I say sensual!) "Strip Robinson and Stimpson who as Nytheguy succes putzy exterior with relatively forceful singing, stand out for genuine acting amid the puns...