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...Palookaville. But the beating or bouncing he took two weeks ago at a Texas topless bar came close enough to his 60th birthday, and near enough to the Copa, to seem to make a full circle. Mantle was even there a little earlier, still leering at 56. The funniest line was Martin's: "I guess I can't go anywhere anymore," as if he had been at midnight Mass. The saddest was Yankee First Baseman Don Mattingly's unintentional uppercut: "Who would hit a 60-year-old man? That's like beating up your grandfather...
...sissy. Rock Star Darlene Love, playing a teacher, breaks character to step forward and smile in acknowledgment of the audience's greeting. The high school bits are apparently meant to be spoofs, except for a bizarre dance about slaughtering a pig, which turns out, inadvertently, to be the funniest moment. As gross-out entertainment, Carrie fails to deliver. Early scenes offer literal stage blood and fire, but the gymnasium Gotterdammerung is all metaphor. It is just smoke and flashing lights and lasers asking to be transformed by the audience's imagination -- a quality lacking in the creators of this mismatched...
...other hand, Salovaara treats his character, George Tesman, with appropriate zeal and with particular stress on the comedic. As Salovaara doen't take his character too seriously, his performance is one of the play's funniest...
...funniest thing in the play is when one of the characters sees Millie reading Carson McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe and warns her mother of its pernicious content. But Millie is saved by Alan, who tells the mother that the book is on the reading list for the modern novel course at his college. Alas, even the play's overt humor eludes the cast...
Whoever thought arms control could be a hoot? But this two-hander, based on the Geneva stroll of Soviet and U.S. negotiators, is Broadway's funniest new comedy...