Word: harpo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. A saucy, stylish musical that spoofs the golden age of the silver screen. All Marxophiles will adore the Ukrainian resurrection of Groucho, Chico and Harpo...
...names Whiteside calls people are intermingled with the "names" who call. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends along some penguins from the South Pole, and "William Beebe" an octopus. Swift visits are paid by "Harpo Marx," played by Leonard Frey, and "Gertrude Lawrence" - a performance by Carrie Nye that rates 10 on a Richter scale for actressy amorous bitchiness...
...Night in the Ukraine, Groucho lives. So do Chico, Harpo and that lady of the formidable embonpoìnt, Margaret Dumont. The program note says that this exercise in dementia is "loosely based on Chekhov's The Bear." Groucho (David Garrison) is the shysterish Samovar the Lawyer. Chico (Frank Lazarus) is a larcenous tongue-in-cheeky footman to the imperious Mrs. Pavlenko (Hewett), the Dumont role. Perfectly at ease as Harpo, Priscilla Lopez is a creature from another planet, who at one wonderfully zany moment plucks out the inevitable harp solo on the spokes of an upside-down bicycle...