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Because in addition to the vamping and crooning, the sexual innuendoes and the Wellesley jokes the Pudding is first and foremost about bad puns. That and anachronisms (look for an American Gladiators dumbbell and a Barney lunchbox). And meta references ("It's the best dialogue I've had since Scene Two." one character says...
...when columnist Frank Rich '71 in last Sunday's New York Times witheringly dismissed the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition as a corporate conspiracy whose "true allure derives from their implicit celebration of the old older in which men call the shots and women submit without protest", he missed the meta-significance of the event...
Holding all this meta-action together is Skip Sneeringer as the imperious Chairman. On stage the entire performance, Sneeringer is hysterically funny as he tries to keep his cast on course. When a mention of "the ship H.M.S. Pinafore" leads to a chorus of sailors dancing on stage, he fumes at them forgetting their shows confused, shouting, "off, off" as he pushes them off stage. Even when he is merely sipping a glass of wine while watching a scene, his presence adds immeasurably to the show. With witty remarks and remarkable charm, Sneeringer turns an amusing show into a captivating...
...various social gatherings around which much of the narrative is centered, responding authoritatively to questions such as whether "the dissemination of revolutionary ideas through popular underground art such as pornography is an interesting antecedent to the samizdat publications of (Czechoslovakia)" or engaging in discussions of the validity of meta-Heideggerian semaphorism...
Gurney establishes his meta-theatrical premise and then proceeds to make the audience aware of the contrivance of his play and of the medium in general. Roger and Julia discuss how their actions contribute to the plot and talk about wanting to "have scenes" with other characters...