Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorced. Peter Lawford, 51, silver-haired actor and former brother-in-law of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy when he was married to their sister Patricia; by Mary Rowan, 25, daughter of Comedian Dan Rowan, straight man of TV's Laugh-In; after three years and five months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...into the standard repertoire as Tom Stoppard's early masterpiece. If you've never seen it, you own yourself a treat, like the first time you read Lewis Carroll or Evelyn Waugh. R & G is an actor's showcase, and if the eponymous reads are any good-you should laugh from the beginning until the surprisingly, tender conclusion. The play is about two characters in search of a language and contains the most brilliant wordplay on the English stage (always rich in wordplay) since Shakespeare or at least Wilde. The "Questions" scene ("None sequitur. Thirty love.") is alone worth...
Richard Hope, not content with simply writing most of the songs in the show, bounces around as a rolly-polly pair of twins, cornering the laugh market whenever he rolls on stage. Only Harriet Kittner, who doubles as Tom Mix, the bartender, and Clementine, the supposedly dead heiress, lacks the lines to develop her comic expertise. As Clementine, the theoretical heroine who falls short of that role because the authors spent so much time developing the surfelt of leading characters. Kittner must restrain her comic abilities. She supplants here talent with an out-of-character solemnity that makes the audience...
...hard not to laugh at some of Hope's songs. After all, a can-can and an Andrews Sisters number and an Astair/Rogers duet could not be more out of place in a nineteenth century saloon. But some of Hope's number breech the gap between hoedown and courtroom lingo to produce some genuinely humorous lines...
...tray, and settled down in front of a television set. The Lawrence Welk Show came on, and I watched, chuckling cynically, groaning as Welk sped his musicians through a medley of "old-a time favorites." Suddenly a voice came out of the corner of the room. "No don't laugh. Listen to the musicians. I don't like what they're playing, either, but, you know, they really know what they're doing. I turned and there sat this guy with a violin case resting across his knees. An odd duck. I thought. What does he do on that fiddle...