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...book is as full of holes as some of the bullet-sieved characters. Roxie Hart (Gwen Verdon), a honky-tonk '20s entertainer, murders her lover and beats the rap, thanks to a slick mouthpiece, Billy Flynn (Jerry Orbach). This scarcely matters. What matters is the erotic poetry in motion that uncoils whenever Verdon and her sister in crime Velma Kelly (Chita Rivera) do their solos and duets. They pace the show with spunk incarnate. The chorus is jazzily bacchanalian, and Patricia Zipprodt's eye-riveting costumes swirl right out of a decadent Brechtian Berlin. Chicago is a cinch...
...just such a starveling kitten of a comedy. The title is classified-ad shorthand for an apartment with a river view. The locale is Manhattan. Inspecting the rent-controlled flat are two strangers, Anne (Jane Alexander) and Paul (Jerry Orbach), both married, but with their respective spouses otherwise occupied. A missing doorknob effectively locks them in together...
Decency of this sort may be praiseworthy in real life, but it is slim fodder for a sexual comedy. In admirably well-keyed performances, Orbach and Alexander are adept at conveying the festering guilt of two fundamentally honorable people who are good at chatting, bad at cheating...
...introduced Joey Gallo (and hundreds of others) to authors like Camus and Sartre when I was education supervisor at Attica state prison. Like Joan Hackett and Jerry Orbach I too can believe that "something happened to him" when he "read and studied." For lack of a better term we called it part of the "rehabilitation" program...
...Joey compressed time with us because he knew in the back of his head that he might not have much time, that he could go at any minute," says Jerry Orbach. "Consequently, a minute spent talking to Joey was like an hour spent with someone else. There was no 'how's the weather?' or small talk. He was somebody who had to catch a train...