Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps twenty kids, aged 16 to 20, are regulars. They stand, smoking, laughing, now beginning a game of Kelly or eight ball, now leaving one of the four tables, game unfinished, to join a circle that has appeared suddenly in a corner. All but two or three are dressed rat: pointy, black pants, dark jacket, overcoat with sharp lapels and a shiny finish...
...brigand and a gendarme in the forest. After le petit Charles won the prize, Encounter was printed in 50 copies, and now one of them is enshrined in the French National Library. The youthful masterpiece lay buried there, but last week a columnist for Le Figaro learned of another rat-chewed copy, unearthed by a book collector, and brought it to the world's attention...
...stage, Succeed succeeded by being as broad as it was wide. A pastel-colored animated cartoon of contemporary big business, it musically chronicled the rise of a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed rodent, J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse), who won the rat race by running just fast enough to keep up with his boss (Rudy Vallee...
...story of course oozes whimsy. The broader humor of Larry Gage's Lowell House production comes across fresh and funny. Toad (John Sansone), who regrettably is far too thin for a toad, bounces around the stage, bubbling, buzzing and boop-booping his phonic fantasies of motoring. Water-rat (David Baughan) and Mole (Carla Barringer) playfully "mess around the river" while a chorus of small, furry animals endears itself...
...cast's movements are also a bit too tense and rigid. Even a Toad can be graceful. But Sansone isn't. Some of the scenes between the natty, restrained Water-rat and the eager, gliding Mole are pleasantly graceful; in smaller parts, Phillipa Lord as Phoebe and Dan Smith and Bob Gage as a horse and his rear end are funny without obviously pushing for laughs...