Word: kahan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon--Ken Tigar--who can bring back our Nixon with only a malaprop, a putty jaw, and seven inflections on the word communist. They have Ted Drachman, a sloop-shouldered broomstick who can't sing and can't dance--and does both well. And finally the Proposition has Judy Kahan and Fred Grandy, two very talented people who can do anything...
...Beaver, and cigarette clinic jokes are only touched up leftovers from before, and the Nixon Messiah is a disappointing adventure beyond the range of the actors' voices. But you don't notice until you've left and your chuckles turn to resonant Harvard sighs. Ken Tigar, Judy Kahan, and Fred Grandy are funny. And I'm an escapist at heart anyhow. SCOTT W. JACOBS
...series of musical numbers work for humor in several dimensions at once, as they treat cliches of musical tradition, situation comedy, character humor and verbal wit. Judy Kahan parodies a torch song singer of the long-legged husky-voiced school in "Euclid's Elemental." Perched on the piano, she crooned movingly about the hypotenuse of a right triangle and touched the audience deeply as she sang "let the whole be equal to the sum of the pa-a-arts...