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...current Broadway delights, Bernadette Peters' act-long vocal solo in Song & Dance and Lily Tomlin's one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. The same nothing-like-a-dame thinking underlies Jerry's Girls, a retrospective pastiche of Herman's work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight chorines, which opened on Broadway last week. It also applies to two compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen...
...raucous pleasures, they derive more from the skill and exuberance of the leading ladies, all past Tony winners, than from the melodies and lyrics, which are burdened with cliche-ridden predictability, relentless optimism and, worst, a prevailing sameness. Uggams' torchy numbers seem too much alike because the songs do. Loudon's comedy, almost all based on self-mockery for being plump and presumably over the hill, eventually becomes distasteful. Rivera, who could dance the telephone book entertainingly, more or less does just that in some tired, ordinary routines. For those who like Las Vegas spectaculars or TV variety hours, Girls...
...Dorothy Loudon, the maid in Nothing On, has lost 25 Ibs., suffered two broken toes and two bruised ribs, and has a trachea infection from the strain on her voice. "I'm so black and blue I haven't worn a dress for weeks," she says...
Annie is an abandoned child of the cruel Depression era. She is incarcerated in a kind of kids' San Quentin where the whisky-swigging warder, Miss Hannigan (Dorothy Loudon), mistreats her charges with fiendish glee. Loudon brings a hammy leering venom to the part that releases howls from playgoers, though her performance will surely appall any admirer of acting restraint...
...sides of the independence issue. A few months later, Portsmouth Printer Daniel Fowle, self-professed champion of press freedom, was summoned before the New Hampshire House of Representatives to answer for an article in his Gazette attacking independence; his paper has not appeared since. New York Packet Publisher Samuel Loudon reports that he was warned recently by the local Committee of Safety not to distribute a pamphlet he had printed for a client who wanted to answer Paine's Common Sense "lest my personal safety be endangered." That night a group of men forced their way into his office, seized...