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Well, almost anything. In the new off-Broadway show Joy, Brown aims for an evening of theater, applying the beat to a collection of soulful soliloquies -on friendship, time, women, love, Adam and Eve and, of course, joy. Called a "musical come-together," Joy as a stage show has no more plot than a bagful of rainbows. But on a new RCA album, relieved of the need for action and reduced to pure sound, Joy becomes the sunniest original-cast LP of the year, an irresistible fantasia of blues, bossa nova, jazz and mild rock that tumbles beautifully...
...Hollywood studios offered me a lot of money for Boys, " Crowley said, but he took a smaller offer from Cinema Center, so that he could retain artistic control and the original off-Broadway cast, all unknowns. "One studio," he explained, "wanted to use old stars in 'these great little cameo parts' to rev up their careers. Paramount kept talking about a title song-they wanted to sell the picture with a hit record...
Died. Rick Besoyan, 45, former actor and singer who in 1959 wrote the book, music and lyrics and directed Little Mary Sunshine, one of Off-Broadway's alltime hits, which ran for 1,143 performances, and was produced in all 50 states and 24 foreign countries; of gastrointestinal bleeding; in Bay Shore...
Throughout the film is strengthened by the work of the cast, all of whom played their roles in the original off-Broadway production. These are all great character actors, but particularly outstanding are Cliff Gorman's Emory and Leonard Frey's incredible Harold, "the pock-marked Jewish fairy" birthday boy; Mr. Frey does more with a phrase like "Turning on" than you could possibly imagine...
...mostly lies in the zany bits of business that Director Alan Arkin has injected into the Cabinet scenes and the comically proficient acting of such Second City alumni as Paul Dooley, Andrew Duncan and Anthony Holland. Holland, in particular, has been an off-Broadway delight for several years. His knees sag with melancholy. He can throw himself on a chair as limply as a discarded bath towel and rise from it with the agitated wiriness of a berserk coat hanger. Perhaps all he needs to be truly discovered is to have Neil Simon see the show, as he did Jimmy...