Word: horganitis
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...makes no clear point. It pushes nostalgia to the brink of extinction. Queen Mother Mary (Eileen Herlie) is a starchy matriarch with a cast-iron devotion to duty. Edward (George Grizzard) is a kind of superannuated adolescent with vague notions of modernizing monarchy. As for the Duke (Patrick Horgan) and Duchess (Ruth Hunt) of York, they caterwaul incessantly about not having had enough on-the-job training to assume the reigns of empire...
...with the worst of Jesus Christ Superstar-a void-plumbing feat. Dude unravels a numbingly incomprehensible allegory ranging from the dawn of creation to the limbo of suburbia, or some thing like that. Galt MacDermot's rock score is a wall of inchoate sound, and Tom O'Horgan stage-manages this debacle like a mass epileptic convulsion...
...serious as claimed by most of the PR rowdies in their current symposium on "Art, Culture and Conservatism." For, if Modern Occasions sometimes carries a just bias against artistic pyrotechnics to a fault, any number of publications--with much larger circulations--are eager to accept Tom O'Horgan or even Richard Brautigan as serious innovators...
...Horgan, 41, is an ex-Marine and former mayor of the New Jersey town of South Brunswick. A bluff natural leader and organizer, Horgan took over as McGovern's state campaign director in January. He knows his way around the rougher corners of New Jersey politics but established an easy working relationship with McGovern's younger followers. Before the Wisconsin primary, he told his youthful co-workers that if McGovern won there, he would let his hair grow. McGovern won, and Horgan let his crew cut fill out by three-quarters of an inch...
...past are very much the vogue. The rules are simple: play it cute, play it camp, play it snide, but never, never play it straight. Recent examples include brilliant pranks like Peter Brook's Midsummer Night's Dream and strident vulgarities like Tom O'Horgan's Jesus Christ Superstar. The latest merry-an-drew is Producer Joseph Papp, who has turned loose a dramatic demolition team on Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona...