Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Generation, by William Goodhart. A baby is born in this comedy, and a stillborn Broadway theater season comes to life with it. This is not a hard-sell gag show but a play imbued with a fond and wry regard for the humor implicit in human nature. With an honest eye, Playwright Goodhart also observes what is often called the conflict but is really the distance between generations...
...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
...Paul Harris, 40, his upholstered people with their flagrant colors and featureless patterns are really subconscious cartooning. And he endows it with a kind of mordant humor that is much admired by most young West Coast artists. "If you see a bird flying," he says, "it has all the qualities of being a beautiful bird. Then if you find a dead bird, it makes you wonder what is the real bird...
...Sorensen, nothing is more unfair than the judgment-most often passed by "professional liberals"-that Kennedy was basically shallow, aloof and uncommitted. "Some mistook his humor, gaiety and gentle urbanity for a lack of depth, and some mistook his cool calculation of the reasonable for a lack of commitment," writes Sorensen. "But his wit was merely an ornament to the earnest expressions that followed, and his reason reinforced his deep convictions and ideals...
Whenever the jokes, out and in, started wearing thin, a production number bounced onstage. The music was infectious, the staging deft, and the singing bearable. The Choreography Committee had a sense of humor. The tunes were surprisingly good, and even if some were stolen, they were stolen with taste, the same way Anthony Newly does it. Arrangements a la The Fantasticks and chord progressions from jazz standards...