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...Martin (Don Berry) discovers to his astonishment that he has met Mrs. Martin (Betsy White) before, that they live at the same address in the same apartment in the same room and each has a daughter with the same colored eyes; they must be married, they conclude! But the maid (Mary Hartwell) tells the audience they...
...least two reactions are possible to this protracted, and at times painful, joke. The maid's is one: "Who has any interest in prolonging this confusion? Let's just leave things as they...
...rung so clear. The Smiths and the Martins establish the overly articulated diction of the whole play, but the abyss of the inane is never fully plumbed until Paul B. Price enters as the Firechief. He has come to put out a fire and finds instead the girl (the maid) who first put out his fires. He stays to bore the company with astonishing narratives. Price delivers his monologues as a child would; his manner is everyman's who comes for fire and stays to bore...
...story traces the acrobatics of an oh so eighteenth century count with a weakness for a winsom lady-in-waiting. Matters are confused considerably by the marked maid's dashing fiancee, Figaro, and inevitably by the lascivious count's peppery countess. When the bedclothes settle, the audience finds the proper pairs in the proper places, and a host of villagers send the couples merrily on their connubial ways...
Some of the cutest girls were, unfortunately, anonymously placed in the chorus groups, but other, not so sexy and sophisticated, were superb any way. Martha Manapace as the Crook, Mary Hoag, a JFK-accented aide, and Elizabeth Kennedy, a maid from Massachusetts trying to "get class," were exceptional...