Word: mankiewiez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From beginning to end, this musical assumes the audience has not only seen the Alan Bates-Lynn Redgrave film of several years back, but has never forgotten a word of it. It is on the basis of this kind of assumption. I think, that Tom Mankiewiez, the author of the show's book, has felt it unnecessary to tell us anything about the show's principal characters: Georgy, the ugly duckling with the big heart; Meredith, the good-looking and cynical slut-next-door: and Jos, the amiable guy who toys with each of them...
While no one has the right to ask this musical to give us Lynn Redgrave and Alan Bates, it is not too much to ask author Mankiewiez to give us two characters strong enough to compensate for the performers' lack of intrinsic charismatic personality. Bates and Redgrave are the kind of beings who could have made Georgy Girl work regardless of the screenplay. Watling and Castle are mere actors, who-even if they are not great characters in their own right-could clearly come up with an equivalent of the film's personalities if given characters...
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