Word: newley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a petulant British everyman's How to Succeed, written, directed, composed, mimed, sung, and stage-hogged by Anthony Newley, who is not all that talented. His helpmate, Anna Quayle, is a comic find...
Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a tedious musicomedy apotheosis of Every-littleman, mimed with confident ineptitude by Anthony Newley. Comedienne Anna Quayle glitters like a diamond in this puddle of paste...
Britain's all-purpose star Anthony Newley, who with Leslie Bricusse wrote the book, music and lyrics for Stop...
World, calls his everymanikin Mr. Littlechap. Newley mimes a good bit of Littlechap's saga in an imitation of Marcel Marceau. Marceau knows the art of saying more with less: Newley says less with more. Though Littlechap periodically shouts "Stop the World!", he is not an Angry Young Everyman. He marries the boss's daughter (she is pregnant by Littlechap at the time), advances from a branch office to head of the firm, enters Parliament, is dubbed a peer, and even gets into the club of his choice. "Snobs...
...justify its billing as "a new-style" musical. Stop the World employs a Greek chorus of girls garbed in harlequin-style tights. They make anatomically diverting, if irrelevant, comment on the action. Newley is as amiable as he is indefatigable, and by musical's end one has been through so much with his Mr. Littlechap that show and showgoer are knit in intimacy, the kind of factitious friendship that springs up between people who have shared a train wreck, or a bombing raid, or certain opening nights on Broadway...