Word: mostel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum mates the delightful buffoons of vaudeville with the delectable houris of burlesque. The pluperfect master of the hilarious revels is Zero Mostel...
...gift is brilliantly displayed in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Dynamic Robert Morse supplies high-voltage clowning. High-styled low comedy of the vaudeville-cum-burlesque variety sets the house roaring with belly laughs at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Zero Mostel is the pluperfect master of the zany revels...
...kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
...kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
...clutch of musicals caters to the best and worst of tastes. The astringent wit of Abe Burrows fuses How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the impish energies of Robert Morse provide the explosive for an evening of delight. Multi-aptituded Zero Mostel brings his masterly clowning to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an uproarious burlesquerie lewdly adapted from some plays of Plautus...