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Pseudolus' young master Hero (John Hansen) is piteously in love with the beauteous virgin Philia (Pamela Hall). If Pseudolus can secure her for Hero, he will receive his freedom. The plot tangles, twists, thickens, quickens, down alleys and up roofs, through brothels of spicy beauties and manses of spiky matrons, leaving behind a car nage of laugh-splintered ribs. Salve, Forum, et in arena hilaritatis! lo triumphe...
...PAMELA LUCARELLI...
...Director Pamela Berlin moves the energetic cast through difficult transitions from one scene to the next with such skill that they smoothly glide over the weaknesses in Van Itallie's play. Amusing bits, such as Andy Rose's radio-bopping pedestrian, and perpetual motion on stage help them get over the play's pretentious stretches with only minor casualties...
...wouldn't think they could fit it all into the ex, but undoubtably Pamela Berlin and her proteges have. And there it is, all for free at the Loeb--with real live actors. America, hooray...
...Connor is quite touching as Andy, and Pamela Martin's Rosalind is properly vexing. There are also a couple of excellent cameos by Tom Ewell as a corpulent abortionist and Lloyd Bridges, who plays Rosalind's father with a perfect balance of anger, befuddlement and affection. These, in fact, are just the emotions that the movie itself deserves...