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Though not physically equipped to play the big of that Brecht intended Galy Gay to be, Bro Uttal is, with some cutting of lines, adequate as a little oaf. He whines piteously at first and shouts fiercely afterwards; that he has no occasion for any other sort of verbalization can hardly be his fault...
Algren feels that Hemingway's honor has been savaged by highbrow critics, who have claimed that Hemingway was merely a lucky oaf who wrote with his muscles and was suspiciously fond of assassinating lions. Algren's efforts to disprove the charges are compulsive, all right, but painfully ineffective...
...rest of the cast sings much less impressively, but follows Schwartz's intricate stage directions to good effect. Randy Lindel, who plays Steckel, a town oaf, is often tiresome in his buffoonery: his eating scene at the beginning of the third act, however, is a wonderful replica of Squire Western's gluttony in Tom Jones. Lucian Russel, as Odario, sprinkles an appalling covetousness into the otherwise romantic script, grabbing for jewels and selling his lovely daughter. Randy Pyle, who plays the ghost of Steckel's father, conveys slightly more the circus clown parodying Hamlet than the spectre, although he fits...
Doesn't the oaf who wrote the article on men's clothing [Feb. 28] realize that men's fashions originate in London (with an occasional assist from Rome) rather than Seventh Avenue? Fashion as such is not for the masses, who look alike everywhere, but for the very few who know how to dress because they are born...
Jonathan Gordon, who plays Birdie, makes a splendid oaf. His "Sincere" song, punctuated by screaming teenagers and collapsing matrons, is easily the high point of the first act. Birdie, about to be drafted, makes a trip to Sweet Apple, Ohio, where he is to bestow his last leering kiss--coast-to-coast--on Kim MacAfee, typical teenage fan (played charmingly by Carol Ketty). In Sweet Apple he runs into Kim's father, Gilbert Nussbaum, who counters Birdie's laughable lecheries with wonderfully ineffectual tantrums. The father's rage subsides, briefly at least, when he appears on the Ed Sullivan show...