Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't really exist until Henry enters and when he does it exists only on the terms of his mad role-playing. Josephs plays a one-man show, first delivering lines with a monarch's dead earnestness, then echoing himself and finally ho-ho-hoing with the most amusing laughter even to open at the Loeb. At least when Josephs ho-ho-hoed, I ho-ho-hoed--while the rest of the audience kept its peace...
...like Wilde and Shaw, delight us with their wit and surface polish rather than any deep probing into the darker recesses of human nature. His plays give the impression of following some ideal of classical form which, however, is never allowed to choke off a good opportunity for laughter or propaganda, for horseplay, music or flouncing epicene behavior. The words dance in intricate patterns of couplets and sextets; the uncomplicated nature of each character is pinned down in his opening lines and does not go off in any unpredictable direction for the rest of the play. The action consists mainly...
...Andy Hardy was in love and the Land of Oz was rainbow hued. Meanwhile, Liza's father, a courtly, cultivated man whom she still idolizes, was busy creating such polished movie musicals as Ziegfeld Follies and Meet Me in St. Louis. Though sometimes frenetic, family life was full of laughter, flowers and music. It was also somehow unreal...
...Lots of Laughter. "Everyone used to tell me their problems; it was really funny. But I wasn't like a kid then. I don't really remember having any childhood. I always had responsibilities and never felt free until I was 20. Then I thought, 'This is ridiculous. I'm going to be a kid for a while...
...Metro," she says. "I could see it happening before my eyes. The chorus of Bye Bye Birdie fascinated me. It had kids in it, and a camaraderie that I recognized. It seemed like an answer to the kind of loneliness I felt. Just friends kidding around, with lots of laughter." Two years later she quit school and began trying to join in the laughter...