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MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, is a dance made macabre by clowning, roughhousing and tenderness, but it is illuminated by the little-girl-lost-and-found acting style of Julie Harris...
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, is a dance marathon macabre with clowning, roughhousing and tenderness, but it is illuminated by the weary, winning, little-girl-lost-and-found acting style of Julie Harris...
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, blends clowns, music, lacerated feet and shrieking nerves to prove that life is a grueling test rather like a 3,000-hour dance marathon. In this strange spectacle that suggests new directions for the U.S. theater, Julie Harris...
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, blends clowns and music and lacerated feet and shrieking nerves to prove that life is a grueling test rather like a 3,000-hour dance marathon. In this strange spectacle that suggests new directions for the U.S. theater, Julie Harris is put to the test, and her inspiring childlike ardor makes this one of her finest performances...
Making her first appearance in the roped-off arena of a seedy American Legion hall, June (Julie Harris) seems least likely to endure. Her head is full of warm muzzy memories of the vaudeville circuit where she was a child star, just as Playwright Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, once was. June finds the marathon degrading and unpalatable, but hunger makes her stomach it. From her partner, Lee Allen, she learns contest protocol: about the "horses" who drag-carry their sleeping partners around the floor with proud belligerence, and about the clowns who must check out after...