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SCUBA DUBA is in the tradition of the "new comedy" that draws its laughs not from funny-ha-ha but from funny-peculiar. Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses) puts one of his pop-skulled, Mom-obsessed neurotics in a chateau on the Riviera during the night his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro. Jerry Orbach is wildly, excruciatingly believable as a modern victim-persecutor, one minute hiding under the coats in the closet, the next brandishing a threatening scythe at his enemy, the world at large...
...Friedman is considering several top skiers, possibly other Dartmouth graduates, to coach the freshmen. The selection will be made within a week...
...Dartmouth graduates, both top collegiate skiers, are coaching the teams. Dick Friedman, Harvard freshman coach for the past four years, took over the Varsity when coach Charlie Gibson left last spring. Cliffies have lined up Chuck Lobitz to work with them. He comes to Radcliffe after two years of coaching at the Holderness School in northern New Hampshire...
...Friedman is very optimistic about the team's prospects. Harvard could "become the best team in the East" in a few years he said, citing an influx of "fantastic" freshman skiers. Ginny Storrs, Cliffie captain, was equally enthusiastic about her team and its chances to capture the Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference crown for the third consecutive year...
SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is perfectly cast as the husband, indiscriminately spraying comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is wriggly as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...