Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost uniformly excellent, allowing for the perennially weak violins. Someday these people will learn that G and S, all G and S, requires a large violin section, and one which is in tune-but I'm not holding my breath. Noreen Tuross's choreography milked the ensembles for every laugh they contained, and Kenneth Kanter's stage direction was thoroughly inspired. Kanter has managed to maneuver the entire company of Iolanthe -dozens of lords and fairies, mortals and others-around the ludicrously small Agassiz stage without making the entire company look awkward. His actors are thoroughly rehearsed and, with...
...sections on cooking (what to-mostly organic-and how-like on a hotplate), camping (what to look for in a sleeping bag-answer: goose down), sewing, washing (hair and face), and just simply making things (like vests made out of beer can pull-tabs). It's easy enough to laugh off such attempts to begin to recapture control of our lives. There is something pathetic in such rudimentary lessons in self-survival. But once you really get into tie-dying jeans and whipping up oatmeal facials, you probably do discover a measure of self-reliance that simply...
Even Rags itself occasionally succumbs to the temptation to laugh. Photo features on cosmetic-counter saleswomen ("a salute to the painted ladies") and middle-aged, uniformed delicatessen waitresses ("they always seem to accent their service with a gourmet seasoning called soul") are often less cruel than they first appear. For, if anything, the corporation is Rags's enemy and the corporation's victims, especially when cast in the role of cultural or economic underdogs, often become Rags's friends. In fact, the November cover story on girl-watching hardhats even manages, however perversely, to suggest that New York's construction...
This is not a comedy that will incur the enthusiasm of devotees of Aristophanes, Molière, or even Neil Simon. To laugh at How the Other Half Loves is a little like making a midnight raid on the refrigerator, half ashamed but sneakingly satisfied...
...course, shared by the largely academic audience at the Loeb, and Vaughan finds such an opportunity occasionally refreshing. "The demands of such an audience are high, which is good"; then he smiled: "Sometimes, however, they're a little pedantic. I can't get used to audiences who never laugh, but just snigger politely...