Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAUGH very much these days. In fact, there've been only two things that made me cackle in recent memory: a line from Levi-Strauss ("... among the Mashona and Matabele of Africa the word 'totem' also means 'sister's vulva,' which provides indirect confirmation of the equivalence between eating and copulation"), and the play by Chris Durang '71 at Dunster House ("Where's Jesus' body?" "Would you believe the Knights of Columbus fervently...
...funny, funny play, and you'll probably laugh yourself silly. "The Vatican Rag" has long been one of my favorite spoof songs, and The Greatest Musical Ever Sung shares (if only fitfully) much of its vigor. If you still take your eucharist seriously, go to the Prudential or something; if not, there's still time to hear the Pharisees do a splendid barbershop quartet. Yuks per minute, its a lot easier going than Levi-Strauss...
...only makes sense. Vietnam and all the social upheavals that have come along with it have not changed the seriousness with which we play our roles in this society. The roles have changed, but the pretense is as strong as ever. It is still difficult to laugh at ourselves...
...cars reads: "There is a new aristocracy in America. Its peers are plainly titled.... If you are a vice-president, you are an earl.... Your castle is the corporation.... You are the most powerful aristocracy in history. You decide what two hundred million people will eat, ride in, wear, laugh at, live for." But the presentation of this information is not enough: for the progressive artist in the capitalist society there must be within his presentation a new method of analysis...
MOST of the show is really funny. Sometimes you laugh at the performers: the men's chorus looks like the Porcellian Club in drag. Sometimes you laugh at the preposterously poor numbers: in a seashore sequence, the women in the company dance on top of enormous beachballs like poodles doing a routine for the Ed Sullivan Show. Sometimes you laugh at the book: I think the line "No, no, Nanette" was spoken or sung about once every six minutes during the show...