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...Zero Mostel, noted actor, will speak on comedy at 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Loeb Drama Center when he delivers this year's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture. Mostel, now playing in the Broadway show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," also played the roles in "Rhinoceros" and the original production of "Ulysses in Nightgown...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a good clean dirty show. It stands for something. It is pro mammal. It is pro burlesque. It is pro the golden corn of vaudeville, flawlessly husked by Zero Mostel, David Burns, Jack Gilford and John Carradine. What Forum brings back to Broadway is good for high, low, middle, and knitted brows-the belly laugh...
This musical comedy is set in pagan Rome and is lewdly adapted from the plays of Plautus, who should really have been named Sub-Plautus. He was a genius at inventing endless slapsticky plot complications. The story is that Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), a slave, will be granted his freedom if he can secure as his master's bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males...
Actor Zero Mostel will speak on "Comedy" in this year's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, May 20. The lecture will be open to the public free of charge. Mostel is the first American performer to receive the But Actor award at the Paris International Theatre Festival...
Rhinoceros. lonesco's lone nonconformist (Eli Wallach) stalwartly resists joining the herd, even when his best friends (notably Zero Mostel) desert...