Word: satiricism
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Like most musicals, the show has many fathers. Christopher Isherwood wrote the plot first as a novella, Goodbye to Berlin. John van Druten adapted it in the 1951 Broadway hit I Am a Camera, with Julie Harris playing Heroine Sally Bowles, a girl as wispy, wayward and vulnerable as the...
The narrator, oddly enough, is a young Englishman named Manning who is working on his thesis at Moscow University. He is hired as an interpreter by a countryman, Gordon Proctor-Gould, who bears a striking resemblance to Greville Wynne, the British salesman who in fact ran secrets for Russian Spy...
THE MAD SHOW gives a passing nod to Alfred E. Neuman's mad mag, but concentrates its satiric discourtesies on fringes of life and society more foolish than lunatic.
After six years in Paris studying cello and savoring the food, Norman Goss decided he would rather take a flyer in the restaurant business than starve as a musician. He chose the name Stuft Shirt both as a satiric jab at his neighbors and to convey the idea of a...
Since then, they have put over such unlikely packages as a Christmas series of four different versions of Handel's Messiah, a "Japan Week" featuring the Toho String Orchestra (with Japanese buffet served at intermissions) and a satiric program of baroque music, P.D.Q. Bach (TIME, Jan. 7), which was...