Word: peach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lacking the audacity to represent a naive childlike purity of faith, and incapable of the sophisticated myth-mocking irony of an Anouilh or a Giraudoux, Peter Stone rests his book, derived from Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach, on the pitiably thin humor of anachronism. Except for one beguiling ballad, I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You, Richard Rodgers' score is almost barren of melodic appeal, and Martin Charnin's lyrics could have been ticked off by a metronome...
...pockets, then in his vest pockets, then on his hips. Ruby Keeler makes an entrance (the first time we see her, she is descending a long curved staircase). Every time something important is about to occur, the full chorus assembles on stage, if only to sing eight bars of "Peach on the Beach." You're overwhelmed by the force of convention which runs through the show, structuring it, and because those conventions are so distant and bizarre, it's difficult not to like them...
Died. Menasha Skulnik, seventyish, irrepressible Yiddish comedian and Broadway actor (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach, The Zulu and the Zayda) for 60 years; in Manhattan. His explanation for his popularity: "People laugh not from the jokes but from the situations I am in. I play the little guy -the schlemiel-against the world...
...lady then got very upset and called the manager. Merilee ate a peach...
thinking. I am Merilee. I am eating a peach. He is shouting. At Merilee? This has happened before. Experience. Straight people and their funny thing about the degree of separation between money and not money. Hassle me not. Sure as your ass is brown...