Word: pantomimists
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Somehow, Newley and Ritchard hold the show together. Newley is a perfect clown, a graceful pantomimist whose range is limited but effective, especially when he's staggering under self-pity or belting out self-encouragement. And Ritchard, though there is still too much of Captain Hook in his giggle and leer, matches Newley's pantomime with a mocking, sophisticated farce that at times shines through the hazy book, lyrics, and music...
...whose attempts to comprehend the unsavory past have produced such memorable fiction as Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine. In The Clown, Böll tells the story of Hans Schnier, a young professional pantomimist who specializes (like his author) in satirizing German complacency. Schnier is in desperate straits: his mistress Marie has left him, his bookings have dried up, he is broke. For almost the entire novel he sits by the telephone, appealing to his family and friends. But when he asks for help...
Destitute Childhood. What Chaplin has delivered is the expectably professional production, fine-honed and highly polished, with funny moments and some touching ones. Yet many readers will wish they had Reinhardt's opportunity to see the great pantomimist act out the high points, for without Chaplin's visual art, the story he tells is in some ways curiously flat, formal, and unrevealing...
...often seem unnatural and out of character, and the repartee flows smoothly but in sipidly. Still, the play might have been salvaged by a better actor than Barry Foster in the crucial role of Julian. Foster moves unsurely, his face fixed in a permanent mischievous grin. A really good pantomimist could have made this part both funnier and more convincing...
...York's City Center, brilliant Pantomimist Marcel Marceau is doing everything from minor impressions of a high-wire performer to a wordless enactment of Gogol's The Overcoat; at the Phoenix Theater, Tyrone Guthrie's production of H.M.S. Pinafore slaps salt freshness into Gilbert and Sullivan...