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...theater, nightclub and television stars. Last week Columbia Presi dent Goddard Lieberson, who induced CBS Chairman William S. Paley to back Fair Lady, took the company's headiest step yet. He issued a recording of the complete dialogue from the surrealistic play, Waiting for Godot, starring Comedian Bert Lahr...
...Capp's comic strip, with songs by Johnny Mercer; Pay the Piper by George (Damn Yankees, The Pa jama Game) Abbott, based on Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. Three other musicals will star such topnotch musicomedy personalities as Nancy Walker, Judy Holliday, Bert Lahr...
...honor roll for acting was almost tiresomely long: beyond established names like Bert Lahr, Ruth Gordon, Rex Harrison, Joseph Schildkraut, Shirley Booth, there were young or foreign ones like Julie Andrews, Andy Griffith, Earle Hyman, Siobhan McKenna. It was the season when, thanks to Comedienne Nancy Walker, Noel Coward's generation-old Fallen Angels was restored to life without having previously ever lived, when Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair, and when Susan Strasberg, in the title role of Anne Frank, was raised to stardom...
...Broadway production is enormously the richer for Comic Bert Lahr's brilliant playing of the more confused of the two tramps. He endows the role with a clown's wistful bewilderment, evocative capers and broad but beautifully precise touches of comedy. Far more than Beckett, Lahr suggests all dislocated humanity in one broken-down man. Others in the cast, however competent, seem a little too studied grotesque or Middle European in style. None the less, Godot has its own persistent fascination. For once in a way, at least, in a theater rife with pointless hurry-scurry, they distinctly...
Edward Chamberlain, the "victimized" Mountie, probably saw Bert Lahr in the movie version of Rose Marie. His Irish accent isn't specially consistent, but he has all the sweeping charm and confidence of the Northwest hero. Janice Thresher, as his ever-dithering wife, does well to play her role completely valiantly, because it is important that she never lapse into obvious contempt for what she is trying to spoof. Joe Hudak's leers, in characterizing the villain, have an ambiguity which cleverly both underscore the mock melodrama and cynically comment on it. His violence and forcefulness have a very convincing...