Word: mama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl friend for a platinum-pated actress, rooks his partners out of their life savings, and check-bounces the firm into bankruptcy to keep his sleek chick's wrists warm (with bracelets). But most of the time Harry is too homey to be unwholesome. He rushes home to Mama (Lillian Roth), counts on her for cooking, and sweeps her into an Oedipalsy song and dance number called Momma, Momma...
...throws a bar mitzvah for a partner's son and intones throatily. "To a boy. fare well. To a man, hello!" The boy's father, thanks to Harry, is about to say hello to a prison warden when Harry's Mama breaks misty-eyed into a song called Eat a Little Something (suitable subtitle: :I'll Cry To day), chiding her son for neglecting his character. It falls to Harry's old boss to give him a second chance and a hearteningly fresh moral viewpoint. In one sentence: it is better to be rich...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play, and the evening...
...Higher Up that he must personally lead a Corps mission to the tiny island of South Embalmo, PEQ. By foul and fair means, he recruits some volunteers, and flies to the island, where, to his pleased surprise, he soon solves an important South Embalmo problem: men. For, as chief Mama Tia explains, South Embalmo has no males in its population. Idyllic problem-solving days pass, until Hurl learns that Noose Publications is planning a feature on the Corps and its work on the island. To impress Noose with the Corps and to save his official neck, Hurl tries to persuade...
Certain actors deserve much better than this show. David Rawle's Mama Tia, for example, proves overpoweringly that men can do anything better than women. Mama Tia has a great Amazon's body and a Tallulah Bankhead voice, and watching her bump and grind out a twisty number called "Razzle-Dazzle" is clearly the evening's treat. Rawle's voice, his enormous toothy smile, and his big cynical eyelids allow him to deliver the flattest sort of lines in a devastatingly funny manner; and he props up whole scenes simply by his presence...