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These assets compensate amply for the production's main problem--a sometimes dated book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. Replete with references to people like Felix Frankfurter and Charles C. Dawes and now-defunct New Deal agencies like the NRA, Wonderful Town is in some ways a period piece. Fortunately, most of the play's humor derives from classic comic situations--the intelligent girl as social misfit, the pretty girl surrounded by suitors trying to out do each other to win her favor. Some of the Chodorov and Fields jokes are pretty unfunny now--Ruth is asked twice whether...
Because he's unable to make decisions, the neurotic adopts an ideal model, and attempts to act as if he were that ideal. But he finds himself hopelessly stymied, since that ideal doesn't correspond at all to his own inner reality. Allan Felix in Play It Again, Sam is haunted by the specter of Bogart--when his wife leaves him, he can only ask himself what Bogey would have done. Bogey would have mended himself with the aid of a little bourbon and soda. But, Allen reflects, if he himself has "one thimbleful of bourbon...
Skip Mendler's portrayal of Allan Felix in the Winthrop House Dramatics Society production of Play It Again, Sam lacks the essential element of restraint. Mendler is not lacking in energy. But his performance forces us to believe that Allan is constantly operating at a feverish pitch of anxiety through the several weeks of action that elapse in the play. As portrayed by Mendler, Allan has very little interest for us; watching him quickly becomes monotonous...
Play it A gain, W oody Allen's comedy about the sexual hangups of poor Allan Felix, a schlemiel who spends most of his time daydreaming about Humphrey Bogart, his idol, and all the women he'd like to conquer. See Set Kaplan's review on page 2 of today's Crimson. In the W inthrop House Junior Common Room, December 12 and 13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
Play it Again Sam. The Woody Allen play about the sexual hangups of poor Alan Felix, a schlemiel who spends most of his time day-dreaming about Humphrey Bogart, his idol, and all the women he'd like to conquer. In the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, December 4-7 and 11-13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...