Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeming stupid. As the buttoned-down businessman who takes up with her, says he can forgive her slightly checkered past and then finds he cannot, Ken Land is more likable and believable than his Broadway counterpart. As a result, what is virtually an identical show plays louder, faster and funnier -- to cite Centenarian Director George Abbott's hallowed instructions to performers -- and also seems more true. It is as bubbly and brisk and bittersweet as Broadway, at home or on the road, is always supposed...
Durang has written parodies before; in his History of the American Film and his Idiots Karamazov (written with Albert Innaturato) he relied exclusively on the form. But in each of those cases he used familiar cultural images as springboards to more important--and funnier--issues. This latest offering manages only to stick small pins in some very easy targets; it is a series of in-jokes about the theater that amounts to just a series of in-jokes about the theater. The heavyhanded production does not help; only Elizabeth Franz manages to find the right kind of placid earnestness...
...vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses but cannot see, snuffling at the wraith's ectoplasm like a spaniel who just knows a squirrel is somewhere nearby...
...continuity, of a purloined child growing up to be a college football star and an old couple with funny names surrounded by a loving family they can never have. "It ain't Ozzie and Harriet," Hi had said earlier of his tattered family portrait. But it's a lot funnier, weirder and more exuberantly original. Just like this movie...
Local comedian Elaine Gold said "This is a great club. It's refreshing to see area talent Less profanity is used." An Eliot House resident who works as a floorperson there, said I love it. The Square is changing. Changing for the better." Or, at least for the funnier...