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James Bundy, Maggi-Meg Reed, and Katharine Kean burst onstage in "Comedy Tonight," which immediately satisfies with its snappy lyrics and fast beat. The trio maintain professional distance from the audience, and, here again, director David Frutkoff's restraint preserves the professional atmosphere...
REED BRINGS an air of confident, but never smug, sophistication to her numbers. However, the highly emotional style that succeeds with songs such as "Send in the Clowns," becomes familiar by the end of the evening, and is obviously unsuited to softer numbers. Kean's quieter voice and more focused performing style provides a contrast to Reed's occasionally overpowering delivery...
...Kean fills the stage without overrunning it. A little too soft in "Anyone Can Whistle"--from a Sondheim show that closed after only one week--she treats this thoughtful, almost philosophical song with the same muted projection and shyness that are more appropriate to the lighter "Broadway Baby," a prayer for theatrical hopefuls, waiting for that one big chance...
...Kean highlights the humor of "Barcelona," bringing to it a similar interpretation. In this familiar song, Bundy begs his stewardess bedmate not to leave the morning after, all the while hoping she will. She cooperates by insisting that she must fly on to Barcelona. At the last minute, she agrees to stay, much to his chagrin. In this piece, as throughout, the two use only one or two props, and remain clad in streetclothes. They pick a theme begun some time earlier in a musical that the audience, of course, doesn't see. But even without a developed plot they...
...Kitty Kean, with powerful voice and striking presence, brings enormous energy to Sir. Her flamboyant gestures and comic intuition give freshness to a classic cardboard character. For most of Greasepaint, the pretentious Sir preaches honesty and fairplay to Cocky as he cheats him blind, tells Cocky he envies him but says behind his back "I wouldn't wish Cocky's existence on my worst enemy." After a couple of nasty quips and cruel tricks, Sir's character is set, leaving no surprises for the audience. But Kean never grows tired or tiresome, always finding a new inflection or expression just...