Word: flea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burnished the sound of the Mexican mariachi band, and now Harry Belafonte has added the alloy to the music of the Caribbean. Belafonte's personal exuberance, however, triumph over the instrumentation. The accent in the album is definitely on calypso, as in Cocoanut Woman and The Naughty Little Flea...
Come you bed-pressers and plate-lickers, sophists, and cynics, come to the Loeb and see Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear. Feydeau has the world's number. Laurence Senelick, the director and translator, has Feydeau's number. Anyone who makes it to the theatre will roar his ribs...
...Flea in Her Ear is an island of ferocious madcap in the art nouveau Paris of 1900. It is farce in the glorious tradition of farce, a cauldron of mistaking: the proper insurance broker husband, Victor-Emmanuel (Steve Kaplan) has a double who spends a besotted life waiting on the proprietor of the infamous Pretty Pussy hotel. The cleft-palleted innocent, Camille (Howard Cutler) is a well-juiced womanizer. Even the wife of the hotel manager is not the frowzy pile of heavy flesh she seems, for there was a time when she was served up nude on a silver...
Kaplan too owns the stage. In everything I have seen him do before this show he has played the Flatbush gonif, the king of the muzuzahed one-liners. In Flea he acts. Eyes, face, tummy--everything is part of the comic arsenal. Kaplan's timing and moves are astonishing. He never walks but rather changes from shuffle to trudge to leap to glide. And like the true master of high comedy he never bruises a line or gesture by offering it up before the audience is ready...
Laurence Senelick, a section-man and graduate student in English, will direct The Flea in His Ear. The one undergraduate director now scheduled for a Spring slot on the mainstage is Daniel Freudenberger '67, who will do Sergeant Musgreve's Dance...