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Most of the cast fill their roles with 18th century gusto. Teresa Toulouse, for example, combines the vengefulness of Gilbert and Sullivan's jilted Katisha with the coarse bumptiousness of Eliza the Flower Girl in her characterization of Lucy Lockit, Polly Peachum's rival for the love of the unfaithful highwayman Macheath. Joanna Blum as Mrs. Peachum also plays her role to the hit. Unscrupulous and unmarried, she jerks around the stage, hands on hips, spitting out cynical asides to the audience...
Confusion replaces illusion as we discover that there is in fact no white corpse in the flower-bedecked coffin. The actors deliberately offend the court, speaking of urine and filth and foul carrion odors. The Governor soon sputters "we've come to attend our own funeral rites." Throughout all this, something ominously unknown is transpiring offstage: Newport News enters and exists, relaying puzzling messages to the court and cast...
...once seemed that the party on Madison Avenue would never end. For almost a decade, openhanded corporate clients threw dollars around like confetti to promote their products. Advertising agencies grew fat; creativity was in full flower. The most sought-after agencies turned out bright, playful ads designed to put consumers in a happy mood: Alka Seltzer's "Try it, you'll like it"; Lay's potato chips' "Bet you can't eat just one"; Noxzema shaving cream's "Take it off, take...
...always bear the weight of that sort of gravity and eloquence. As Eliza, Christine Andreas has the richness of voice that one associates with opera-and, alas, some of the same crimped acting range. She is a more warm-blooded woman than Julie Andrews, but considerably less of a flower girl or a lady. Perhaps it is difficult for an American actress to comprehend either. But like a windjammer, Shaw's imagination sails past all obstacles...
...Lindbergh kidnaping case without feeling embarrassment for his craft. "Experiencing a kind of publicity hitherto known only by royal families, Presidents, or movie stars, we had none of the official protection on public figures," recalls Mrs. Lindbergh in the latest installment of her diaries and letters (The Flower and the Nettle; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Her recollection is the main theme of the crucial years retold in Leonard Mosley's new biography of Lindbergh...