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Imported from London is the redoutable Jean Littlewood's satirical revue Oh What a Lovely War (at the Broadhurst). The material is not newly minted, but drawn from actual records, memoirs and recollections of World War I. It's an evening of music and laughs, but every joke carries a dagger. Performing in this quasi-Brechtian production is a large and able British company headed by Victor Spinetti, Barbara Windsor, Murray Melvin, and Brian Murphy...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. For this music-hall documentary, Joan Littlewood hits where it hurts with laughter by blending sentimentality, song and satire. A marvelously adroit cast, led by Victor Spinetti, plays the men and women who lived, joked and suffered through World...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Blending song and satire, commedia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies of the 1914-18 war. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a nostalgic folk-musical version of Sholom Aleichem's tales of life in czarist Russia and Aleichem's gentle dairyman, Tevye, brought to life by Zero Mostel's larger-than-life interpretation...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Blending song and satire, commcdia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Period songs, sketches, gauze-clad music-hall girls and blown-up film stills have the cumulative impact of an artillery barrage in Joan Littlewood's biting satire on World...