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...MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN...
Known in the United States primarily as a sporadic PBS warm-up for Monty Python fans, Beyond the Fringe began as a stage show at the 1959 Edinburgh Festival, then performed for London and New York audiences before two of its four members--Peter Cook and Dudley Moore--brought...
...Like Python, Beyond the Fringe specializes in heavily satiric parodies of the moronic aspects of "the hurly-burly of modern existence," as exemplified by the morons themselves--the twit who shows up at an opera he does not like 497 times in the hope of catching a glimpse of the royal family, the Scotland Yard detective with all the intellect (if not looks) of an iguana in heat, the one-footed man ("unidexter" is the term used) who wants to try out for the role of Tarzan...
McCue--wimpy, paranoid and afflicted with a terminal semi-stoop in all his roles-- also directs Beyond the Fringe, without any noticeable problems. The only minor quibble, probably inherent with this kind of material (as in Monty Python and Saturday Night Live), lies in the skits' occasionally flat endings. Monty Python just switches to a cartoon when it can't find a way to finish a routine and there's always the applause sign for Saturday Night Live. Beyond the Fringe doesn't have these options...
Animal House. At Harvard Square, Tuesday at 1, 4:30, and 8:05 p.m. With Monty Python and the Holy Grail...