Word: playgoer
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Incident at Vichy aims for the playgoer's conscience, but only grabs his lapels. Arthur Miller has written not a drama but a moral lecture on guilt and responsibility as it concerns the mass murder of European Jewry...
Bajour. If it strikes a playgoer that there is something terribly funny about bilking a lonely, gullible widow out of some insurance money, then this musical is his to enjoy. Otherwise, it is strictly for the gypsies...
...terms with her lines, and the rest of the cast is unspeakable, except for Barry Primus, who plays Beatrice's low-born hatchetman and seducer. The message of the evening seems to be that a girl may love the man she loathes. It does not hold for a playgoer...
...theatrical montage. Period songs, sketches, gauze-clad music-hall girls and blown-up film stills fill the stage while a lighted news ticker across the backdrop impersonally taps out the monstrous dance of death: ALLIES LOSE 850,000 MEN IN 1914. Mockingly ironic, magnetically fascinating, Lovely War defies a playgoer to settle back in his seat. Tender, frolicsome and tragic, it turns spilled blood into tears and evokes laughter in hell...
...playgoer who wants to cultivate amnesia need only listen to the Jule Styne music and the lyrics of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also undid the book. Donald Brook's costumes are deliciously droll, right for the period, and colorful as the frosting on a birthday cake. They should be saved for another show...