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...with the movement's pioneers. In the early '60s, these younger artists introduced more personal subject matter, along with something akin to the new spirit then percolating among San Francisco's Beat poets. Their work displayed the sensibility of the evolving "underground" scene -- angrier and more confrontational, yet also funnier...
...emcees appear ostensibly to introduce the scenes. But most of their jokes are at the expense of the show's weaknesses, often taking pot shots at corny tap dance scenes and cliched characters. And the emcee's performances are invariably much funnier than anything else in the show...
...Murphy, John Ducey and Valerie Mulhern, who play the imaginary husband, brother and daughter respectively get funnier as the show loses its comprehensibility. Their comic timing is especially good in the puppeteer scenes, where these apparitions induce Susan to do their bidding...
LEND ME A TENOR. Funnier than Neil Simon's Rumors and ably played, this door- slamming farce revives the swellegant urbanity...
...paper that he carted around through five marriages. For the Comedy Tonight number from Forum, an original cast member sketched out the business. "Jerry had forgotten about half the jokes," Sondheim says, "and being the inventive man he is, he invented some more. Some of them are even funnier...