Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ADISEMBODIED VOICE in the darkness carries the audience back to the ninth of February, 1964. A group of singers called Forever Plaid are killed in a contretemps with a school bus. 25 years later, they're back on earth again--four well-shaven ghosts with their hair parted at the extreme left, dressed in white dinner jackets adorned with bow ties. And they're staging "the biggest comeback since Lazarus...
...Forever Plaid is performed on a tiny stage fringed with starry blue curtains, with a grand piano and a 'cellist in the background. The entertainment consists of 27 sing-along tunes from the 1950s and '60s, glued together by a little plot, a little humor and a little acting...
...humor sustains the feeling of the "good old days" -- the jokes and quips are positively ancient. While the style may be a refreshing change from sex and violence, Ross takes the theme of innocence and jollity a little too far. Puns like "The Good, the Plaid and the Ugly" are one painful example. And the Forever Plaid Christmas album, called "Plaid Tidings," is another...
...Forever Plaid--by Stuart Ross. In the Terrace Room in the Boston Park Plaza Hotel at 64 Arlington St. Tickets are $22.50 and $27.50. Call 357-8384. Tuesdays through Sundays...
...frissons; it plays like Little Shop of Grease. Hasselfree's The Edge of the Knife, with a soap-opera setting, gets most of its humor from the audience; participants are asked to guess the murderer's identity and motive. A bit higher up the food chain, Forever Plaid uses the singers' plangent harmonics to camouflage a thin book. And you need a doctorate in Broadway shows and lore to get all the jokes in the new edition of Forbidden Broadway -- but for insiders, and good guessers, the musical malice has its own witty thrill...