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...cream cart. Also known as the milkshake cart, soft ice cream being a tricky thing to keep in your cone in 90-degree weather. I stopped in front of the cart every day to watch a street-mime who had staked out this part of the avenue. His schtick, which attracted a large crowd every day, was to follow unsuspecting pedestrians about a step behind them, imitating the way they walked Every so often, he would run ahead of one of his subjects and dive onto the sidewalk to look up her skirt. One day, an elderly woman...
...Shakespeare Brothers do a funny schtick about being interviewed. "How much money do you make; what are your goals, and did you go to school to learn that?" Aveson asks his empty fist in a passable Walter Cronkite imitation. In fact, the money can be surprisingly good. Well-known acts that draw big crowds can pull $75 on a good evening. But like most of their colleagues, Aveson and Krulick are ambivalent about commercial success and long-term aspirations, preferring to talk about their present work. "This is a full-time job," says Aveson, "We're commited to street performing...
...energy and the split-second timing. Director Stephen Ives has fine-tuned this comedy of manners into a fast-paced social commentary, demanding consistent and sincere performances from his cast. He controls the humor and tone of the play with a light hand, never letting the performances lapse into schtick or inappropriate vaudeville. The set, by Constantine Antoniades, and the costumes, by Anne Troy, integrate naturally into the light tone of the production...
Ignoring for the moment that this schtick with the bakers is so tiresome and hammed-up that even the children in the audience cringe: the scene destroys the clever suggestion of designer Ken Moya's simple wedding cake. Furthermore, the overture, given a first-rate reading under Joyce Bynum's direction, is relegated to the role of mere background music...
Surely those old gags would have gasped their last. How long can a comic repeat the same wife-ethnic-sex jokes and secure a strong laugh? If the comic is Henny Youngman, the answer is--a lifetime. "The King of the One-liners" has used the same schtick for almost 50 years--and it still works...