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Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m. .ABC). The Trial of Captain Kidd, with Victor Jory...
Happily, something extra-and even, in Michael Kidd's case, extra-special-is sometimes supplied. If the Dogpatchers can be dull when they walk, they are dazzling when they run. Choreographer Kidd's Sadie Hawkins Day ballet is a wonderful matrimonial chase in which Al Capp's womenfolk become amorous Keystone Cops. In the Visigothic descent of the Dogpatchers on General Bullmoose's formal ball, Kidd has created one of the memorable shambles scenes in Broadway history. And for the show's rousingest music, Jubilation T. Cornpone, Kidd has made a packed stageful of bodies...
...obvious advantage of the musical version over its newspaper predecessor is its choreography. Easily handling a stage that is nearly always teeming with hillbillies or, on one occasion, Washington blue bloods, Michael Kidd continually constructs exuberant displays. With wit, ballet, acrobatics, and pantomime as tools, he creates a life on stage that is a pleasure to watch. At his worst, his hand is merely too obvious, owing to the sometimes overprofessional polish of his characters' motion; at his best, as in the very amusing Sadie Hawkins Day chase, his work is a tour de force...
...Abner is lucky to have Mr. Kidd, for the plot is not strong, there is little acting, and the songs and singing are unexceptional...
Backed by the gay, mobile scenery of W. and J. Eckert, dressed in appropriate costumes by Alvin Colt, and directed by the skilled Mr. Kidd, the actors manage, all in all, to keep up the flavor and reputation of Al Capp's brainless but enjoyable world...