Word: moe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shots!), has updated A Night at the Opera, this time with the anarchic philistinism demolishing a ballet company. But director Dennis Dugan's zanies -- John Turturro, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith -- can't enunciate, and their playing is way too broad; they must think the Marx brothers were Moe, Larry and Curly. Maybe farce always wears out its audience, but it shouldn't wear out its welcome. When Turturro tells some swells, "I bid you all a fond-ue," you may say, "Fond...
...frenzied tap dancers and some enormous female singer with a voice like a howitzer. There have been exceptions that accorded blacks roles of dignity and depth (the richest emotionally, Dreamgirls, ironically was crafted by whites). But the norm is jumping and jiving, as in the new Five Guys Named Moe and the amiable gumbo of jubilant New Orleans sounds The High Rollers...
...Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He was just out for a night on the town with friends in Britain when he saw a jumping, jiving cabaret revue. It could not have been further from Mackintosh's customary taste. He favors life-and-death storytelling; Five Guys Named Moe is a wisp of a tale about a drunken lowlife cleaning up his act and winning back his lady love with the help of five hipsters who materialize out of his radio late one boozy night. Mackintosh shows are polished like gems, but Five Guys thrives on funk and folksy amateurism...
...bandbox site to the pilastered prestige of London's West End. There its exuberance and energy wedded happily with a larger space and wittier, more elaborate settings, a fantasy urban landscape in which skyscrapers look like zoot-suited people. So he decided to brave Broadway, where Five Guys Named Moe boogied in last week. It is a slight, sometimes silly but absolutely joyful experience, larkish and lighthearted and a bit like running around with a lampshade on your head...
THEATER Five Guys Named Moe party all night...