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...players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons. Item: "God, how can I silence this monstrous woman?" Item: "But you betrayed something in me, [soulful pause] deep, deep in me." Double item: Husband-"Have you defiled my bed?" Wife [tinkle of silvery laughter]-"Oh Donald, you must be the only man in England who would use such an expression...
There's a little place in East Cambridge--it used to be a synagogue--where Portuguese Americans whoop it up every Friday night. Ernie Souza's combo plays in one corner and a bar stretches along the back wall. As Al Vellucci enters, the noise and the laughter shifts towards the door...
...this scene developed, the audience began to laugh--not everyone, of course, but enough persons so that the entire scene played itself out to continuous laughter...
Fonda makes frantic efforts to ring in a company lawyer, a doctor and a hyperthyroid magazine editor (Sandy Baron) to thwart the ultranatural-childbirth plot. This keeps the stage busy, but what keeps the play moving is undrying freshets of laughter, the limber comic pacing of Director Gene Saks, and the abrasive tension of the generational tug-of-war. The son-in-law's nose is keener than his intelligence. He scents corruption in every institution, but he demands a kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense...
...there are ways to overcome the problem. Take the laughter of the audience. For a good out-joke ("Sure we have the right of free speech, we just don't have anything to say.") everyone laughs in unison. In-joke laughter is different. First there's a high peal of feminine laughter. Then that dies down while the girls turn to explain to their dates what's so funny. Finally a low grunt of masculine approval rings in and then everyone shuts up for the next joke...