Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dying in the bright lights of Vegas, Tommy limps back to his native Blackpool as Vic Torascos, seeking his comic and family roots. The town's main attraction is an archaic amusement park where horror and laughter mingle in a wry microcosm of human existence. At this point, Dickens lends a hand in the characterization, bringing in some of the most weirdly wacky creatures since Oliver. Blackpool's population seems to be comprised entirely of elderly eccentrics left over from the "Harold and Maude" auditions...
What do you think of randomization? We think it's Draconian. [Laughter...
...laughter of the triumphant seemed to overpower the tears of the defeated in Harvard Yard yesterday, as first-years shared the results of their housing lottery...
...Scottish comedian Billy Connely once started a show, to much laughter and applause, by asking, "Isn't `A Whiter Shade of Pale' the most pretentious piece of crap you've ever heard in your life?" He's half right. Procol Harem's famous ditty (and only hit) has always been annoyingly obscure. But it's also strangely beautiful. Lennox's eerie modern version of the song is almost an improvement on the overblown original...
...three plays, what's good is quite good, and what isn't is at least adroit and intelligent. And if you leave the theater with conflicted emotions, that's only to be expected. Mixed feelings are, after all, what Death Defying Acts aspires to: troubled laughter...