Word: gigi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fast-paced" is usually a compliment to a play. In the Case of Gigi, however, it's a kind understatement. There are many Gallicisms in Gigi, but the most apparent is its ten-day-bicycle-race quality. After barely two frenetic hours of rushed dialogue, countless entrances and exits, and six scene shifts, the audience is breathing hard...
...Adapting Gigi from Colette's novel, Anita Loos has weighted a delicate story a bit too heavily with farce, and the cast scurries through the lines as though intent on catching the 10:35 out of town. Due perhaps to an over-familiarity with the script after a year on Broadway and on tour, the pace is regrettable because the delightful characters of Gigi warrant a longer acquaintanceship...
...plot is slight and charming. The ingenuous offspring of a proud line of cocottes, Gigi shocks here family by holding out for a proposal rather than a proposition. From the irony of conventional immorality, the play draws its humour, most appealing in the less hurried scene in which Gigi learns that a carat is mineral, not vegetable. With cluttered parlor and gilt boudoir, hour-glass corsets and knowing looks, the play elegantly recreates Paris...
...dance the Charleston, and indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic assort ment of sheiks and shebas...
...flower-decked hotel bedroom in Nice, Colette, aging French novelist and short story writer (Gigi, La Maison de Claudine), sipped champagne, read some Maupassant and made a 79th birthday decision: "It isn't particularly funny to learn all at once upon waking up that one is entering one's 80s. But tomorrow I will forget and give myself another age, 58 for instance, because I have remained so much a woman. At 58 one still pleases ... at 58 one has so much hope...