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Seven Beauties is a knockabout mockery of a cherished notion: that just to go on drawing breath is worth any sacrifice, a goal beyond any scruple. This is certainly an idea to which Pasqualino Frafuso clings with all the fervor in his Neapolitan soul. Nicknamed "Seven Beauties," in ironic allusion to his seven lumpish sisters, Pasqualino struts and flirts for all the women in Naples and looks for "respect" from the local...
...difficult, unrewarding role. Pooh-Bah (Scott Moe) was well performed, but not as satisfactory; like Peter Rogers's unfortunate Mikado and Crowley's otherwise fine Ko-Ko, his portrayal suffered from too much of an unctiousness that makes Gilbert and Sullivan seem like effete tomfoolery, overbred "veddy British" knockabout farce, instead of satirical light opera of the highest order...
What is even more puzzling is why Sir John, a man far from devoid of intellect, should have totally ignored the fact that Private Lives is a romantic comedy and not a knockabout farce to be milked for cheap, rowdy laughs. However they may strike us 44 years after the play was written, Amanda and Elyot were meant to be romantic names. The one song in the play, Some Day I'll Find You, is as seductive as a dizzying perfume. This production exudes merely a sorry stench. ·T.E.K...
This year's New England powerhouse, Tufts, won the team event, followed by Yale, Harvard and the University of Rhode Island. Co-captain Tim Blac, in dinghy competition, and Tom Reps, in knockabout, both turned in impressive performances...
Some of it works and some of it does not. "To what end?" is a question that is three-quarters silly when queried about a knockabout entertainment, which uses the rape of Nanking as a casual scene shifter. The only answer is, "To the end of the book!" Still, the author does have a point of view: the human race is obsessively and sometimes grandly daft. Whittemore is a first novelist, age 41, an ex-Marine who learned Japanese as a Foreign Service officer in the Far East. He also served Mayor Lindsay in New York's antidrug addiction...