Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain professor's lecherous reputation and a massage parlor beneath a pizza parlor. Most of the show's three hours, however, are taken up with Bobby's far-flung fantasies, which include a bicentennial minute on Law School history, a Perry Mason sequence and a take-off on Hollywood Squares with Law School professors replacing the stars. Archibald Cox's seat in the middle of the set is noticeably empty...
Tots in Tinseltown. This year's Hasty Pudding Show is a parody of Hollywood musicals of the '30s. Sources say it's worth seeing if you're into drag. At 12 Holyoke St., through March 20. Shows nightly except Sunday at 8 p.m., with performances March 6 and 20 at 5 and 9 p.m. Tickets--too expensive...
...love it. They clap and laugh at the lyrics thrown in their faces: Where the action is high-paced A million dollars can go to waste We've embraced its lack of taste Hey Whaddya say Lets all be tots in tinseltown today. On the Pudding's stage, this Hollywood 1930's parody becomes description of present reality...
WHAT HOLDS TOTS IN TINSELTOWN together--it sprawls over 12 scenes in two acts--is this sense of showmanship: all of the actors and actresses want to make it big in entertainment. Where the plot doesn't hold up, the Hollywood fantasies or the fact that everybody thinks of themselves as entertainers carry things through. The idea that this is show biz makes some of the songs and dances a little less adventitious than they normally are in musicals. The chorus-line number, for instance, which has to be stuck in every year, is introduced by Preston, who says...
What seems to bring Tots in Tinseltown slightly above the horizon of mediocrity isn't really a coherent whole: the art-deco sets by Frank Colavecchia, especially the backdrop for Preston Folded's Hollywood home; a few of the costumes by Barry Odom--one eye-catcher was Henna Hoofer's feathery outfit for the imaginary movie number, "Pigeons of My Heart"; and Ronald Melrose's music, which goes so far as to include an anomaly of sorts in Tots, a serious lost-love song called "Minus Me." All this floats around in a melange of parody and self-parody that...