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...Geraldine Barclay (Diana Davila), a toothsome cutie of unblemished innocence. Before anyone can say "stocking fetishist," he has her stockings off. Before anyone can yell "body snatcher," she is lying nude on the doctor's examination couch (behind a curtain, that is-this play caters only to the playgoer's imagination). In comes the doctor's wife (Jan Farrand), a blonde minibombshell charitably described by her husband as a nymphomaniac. When she makes her usual plaint about Dr. Prentice's lack of expertise as a lover, the doctor replies a trifle uncharitably: "You were born with...
These plays are for sophisticates, but Kevin O'Connor's performance is for everyone who ever cared about superior acting. His gregarious presence epitomizes the actor as host. Each playgoer is a guest at his party; he means the party to swing, and it does...
...overall merit of Applause is a sleek professionalism that neatly camouflages its shortcomings. The music and lyrics have the glistening utility of railroad tracks carrying the playgoer from station to station of the plot. The chorus numbers, staged by Director-Choreographer Ron Field, belong to the squirrel theory of dance. Everyone scampers, scampers, scampers, but with so much joie de vivre that animation almost qualifies as design. A perky, elfin-like charmer named Bonnie Franklin lends spirited vitality to the song-and-dance title number and is rightly rewarded with a storm of applause...
...such that the only nun people would queue up for at the box office would be one who is leaving the church, and the only black, one who is demanding reparations from it. Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn must have lost interest before they wrote the score, and any playgoer will lose heart as soon as he hears it. Whatever money Joshua Logan received for his lethargic direction or Jo Mielziner for his anemic sets was collected under false pretenses...
...Peter Shaffer's reach exceeds his grasp in Shrivings, Anthony Shaffer's grasp is so sure in Sleuth that the playgoer may well wish he had reached farther. In fact, it is tempting to find a moral in this-but drawing morals can be too facile a game...