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Charlie Hyde, as Iambiguous, and Mark Dorman, as Sir Koeld, appear to be the most contemplative. Hyde is consistently good in his thoughtful, Hamlet-like posturing, as he worries about cigars and kazoos. Dorman is suitably imposing as he philosophizes, with a Mrs. Malaprop vocabulary, about "metaphysical exquiries" and throws around big words that sound nice without bothering to mean anything...
...Henry Ford II's observation: "New models every year and all this hoi polloi about introductions and all that are becoming passé," outdoes Mrs. Malaprop at her best...
...Mayor Malaprop...
...Proposition still gets away with its simple stock of Nixon, Agnew, pot, morality, and sex (especially sex) jokes because the little garage-theater they occupy in Inman Square is their own unreal world. They have their own Nixon--Ken Tigar--who can bring back our Nixon with only a malaprop, a putty jaw, and seven inflections on the word communist. They have Ted Drachman, a sloop-shouldered broomstick who can't sing and can't dance--and does both well. And finally the Proposition has Judy Kahan and Fred Grandy, two very talented people who can do anything...
Jolly Showman. His doctor attributed Quill's death to a coronary occlusion, the climax of years of heart disease. His condition could not have been helped by his long-run performance as a public scold and Malaprop, whose every appearance was good for scatology and demonology, cracks and castigations, all delivered in a beery Kerry brogue that grew richer year by year. He walked with a limp that he attributed to an English bullet-actually, it was caused by a congenital hip condition later corrected by an operation- and called himself an "elder statesman among public monsters." Mike bluffed...