Word: rauschmeier
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...most forgettable plays I've ever seen. A Neil Simon comedy, it turns on the ambivalent feelings of an All-American Southern belle and Olympic swimmer towards two radical Dartmouth grads who put out a leftist political quarterly from their next-door living room. Sophie Rauschmeier is her (unlikely) name; she loathes Normal Cornell, the sexually repressed but industrious writer of the pair of roommates, who is unfortunately smitten by her looks (and smell). As the disstrous outcome of Norman's amorous gestures, Sophie loses her job at a YMCA swimming pool, and actually goes to work for the magazine...
...Stephen Benson's Norman isn't comically awkward, just awkward; to be interested in him at all as a character we'd have to see his writing, and Benson can't move well enough to compensate the playwright's thinness. Worst of all is Caria Berg's strident Sophie Rauschmeier, with a banshee voice and a great stone face that moves in clicned exaggerations when it does move...
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