Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CELEBRATION, by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the co-creators of The Fantasticks, is a charmer for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic realm of childhood. Potemkin, a master of ceremonies winningly played by Keith Charles, presides over a land of enchantment peopled by a handsome blond Orphan, a crestfallen Angel, a bored and impotent Mr. Rich and a group of Revelers. With a straight melodic line and the unpretentiously apt lyrics of the songs, the play is one of those good things that come in small packages...
...proud black man, who was a ghetto orphan at six, but now surpass at least 97% of whites in education and income. What I resent is that when you publish a "Black and White Balance Sheet" [Jan. 24], you do not also explain that according to the 1960 census, a black man with four years of college can expect to earn less in a lifetime than a white who just finishes high school. What does this tell us about working hard, being clean, getting an education? Isn't this proof of how racist the system really...
...handsome blond Orphan (Michael Glenn-Smith) has been expelled from a celestial garden, but he has brought with him the stained-glass eye of God, his personal token of hope in the essential goodness of things. He meets an Angel (crestfallen) with grave dark eyes. This lovely girl (Susan Watson) tells the Orphan that she is tired of being a Nobody and wants to be a Somebody. Together they meet Potemkin, a master of ceremonies and revelers, played with winning guile by Keith Charles. Potemkin tells the Orphan that he has read that God is dead, so survival has become...
...survive, they must all deal with Mr. Rich (Ted Thurston). Old Rich has the classic ailments of age and wealth: he is impotent and bored. On New Year's Eve, Potemkin arranges for a love scene to be played between the Orphan and the Angel with the hope of restoring Rich to youthful virility, after which the old man is supposed to get the girl. Naturally, it does not turn out that...
...strange, unfriendly world. Young Balthazar's only male friend throughout his introverted existence is a chap named Beefy. An aristocratic orphan whose real name is also Balthazar, Beefy seems to be the protagonist's alter ego. Beefy is boisterous, tough, brawling, and given to priapic pranks. Starting with Beefy's expulsion from school for being a self-confessed "magnificent masturbator," their shared adventures-sometimes poignant, often comic-turn into wretched disasters...