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...play’s greatest strengths was its ability to balance humor with the deeper implications of the play. “Fabulation” was diluted with an overall sensitivity as well as interspersed with scenes of intense gravity. I completely lost it when Elmore, in a grippingly emotional soliloquy, confessed that she had rejected her family even when her father had sent her his weekly lottery money...
...game portraying reincarnated roles such as a couple of babies (with the help of beautiful head-puppets from set designer Janie E. Howland), as well as a loyal house dog. Unfortunately, her warm and approachable acting style doesn’t do well on Durang’s twisted humor, and her performance comes out shallow, gimmicky, and shrill...
...First Snow” is the cast of supporting characters that surround Starks. Starks’ co-workers and acquaintances provide much-needed comic relief. William Fitchtner and Rick Gonzalez, playing two of Starks’ fellow salesmen, brighten their scenes by lightening the mood with dry humor, lampooning the mundane life of a traveling salesman. Starks’s interactions with the two, particularly in bars, create a vivid portrait of his life before the fortune-teller. But limited by the mediocre script and plot, their significant contributions cannot rescue the film. Technically, “First Snow?...
...track is well-balanced with its truly old-fashioned sound: the horns in the background call to mind black-and-white cartoons, and the vocal lines evoke the girls of the Broadway musical “Chicago.” Here, Gray’s sense of humor comes out to play. “Ghetto Love” falls too far into the modern realm and away from Gray’s own style, as evidenced by the title alone. The track sounds too derivative, but who knows—maybe that will make it an audience favorite...
...Stewart would beg to differ.Rich, former president of the Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand, must now be referred to as a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), just published his first book, “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations.” Full of short, comical stories, dialogues, and playlets, “Ant Farm” is gaining Rich praise from many readers, including Stewart, and comparison to another former Lampoon president, Conan O’Brien...