Word: foppishness
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Even though Xica dons very elaborate costumes, the climax of the movie comes when the character sheds her clothes to perform a ritualistic dance. Her taut body fills the screen as she seduces a foppish Count eagerly watching her--not to mention the audience...
...uncontrollable hysteria then suddenly reverts to her previous composure. Samuels as Camembert, La Passionelle's husband, portrays the scheming, jealous husband with the proverbial evil, insane glimmer in his eye. Camembert is madly jealous of his wife's affections for La Mole, played by Randolph. Randolph, as the foppish lover, saunters around the stage and monopolizes it with his highly stylized movements. The scenes between La Mole and La Passionelle as they plot to throw a murder charge on the last character. Dupont (Stein), are marvelous. As the lovers develop their plans. Dupont, an innocent admirer of La Passionelle...
Although the comedy in this play is of a strange sort there is still a wonderful collection of clowns. Pompey (Peter Ginna) is a gangly, very funny fellow, particularly when paired with the troglydite hangman David Van Taylor. Sam Samuels utter perfect obnoxiousness turns the foppish Lucio into a narcissistic climber. And Bill Rauch has a short but memorable cameo as the incompetent officer Elbow...
Leroy Horsemouth Wallace plays himself in the lead role with the shuffling nonchalance of a heroic anti-hero who knows things will work his way. He is not particularly attractive with a zig-zagging beard and untamed hair that he buries under foppish hats. But he steps stridently when he is angry, bends his joints with a marvelous fluidity when he is gleeful, and rarely ceases wriggling long enough...
...show struggle a bit to develop consistently amid the cartoon zaniness of the supporting roles, but for the most part they cope very well. Cornelia Ravenal, as the ever-willing Paquette, bubbles guilelessly along, creating an enjoyable caricature. Stephen Hayes starts a bit shakily as Maximillian, Candide's foppish foster brother, but he becomes more convincing with each episode until he shines in a wonderful passage with the Governor in which he gets sold as a female slave only to have his coconuts exposed at the last minute. Hayes sometimes fails to sing loudly enough, but his acting eventually makes...