Word: mimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Sellon does a fine job with this thankless role. His singing voice, while not particularly strong or melodious, suits his characterization to a tee. Sellon delivers the most sarcastic lines in the play with venom, and is just as effective when silent. He has a talent mime, and his supple movements and flexible facial expressions give Littlechap the humanity that the scripted character lacks. During the final minutes of the show, Sellon all but convinces the audience that this Littlechap isn't such a bad sort, after...
...Director Debbie Solomon '80 says she wants to emphasize the "light, allegorical comment on life" offered by this musical comedy that ran so successfully on Broadway starring its director and author, Anthony Newley. Given that the travels take place in an exciting realm not of TWA but of sound, mime and music and that the discoveries made along the way are reason not to get out a camera but to burst out into beautiful songs like "Gonna Build a Mountain" and "What Kind of Fool Am I?," both Littlechap and and Solomon can also expect a good deal of success...
Bonnie Zimering as the Mute is a refreshing fountain of understatement. Her careful, graceful mime and dour expression accented by simple, effective make-up, transforms her role from a piece of furniture and dispenser of props into a wise and mournful critic of what goes on around her. She is sophisticated without being aloof, sympathetic but not saccharine...
...Helium Mime Show...
...Helium Mime Show...