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...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...
...have been a little more glossy than crustacean. Forebodings of trespassed territory emerge from the back cover of "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time"--it's 1974, right? and Jaws is more than an aching molar in the back of Peter Benchley's mouth, right? and a great white shark is slithering through clear green water on the back cover, about to swallow the credits and titles...
...obscure references to Law School trivia, the script is pretty funny even without the Pavlovich jokes. The best musical numbers are "Laura, Little Laura," in which Bobby describes the sad death of Laura Vue, who was eaten by a shark in the Charles (to a background chorus of wailing greasers), and "Never Tell a Lie," in which Bobby and the company act out the punishment for perjurers...
Right now Essick would do anything to win, but if you were going to suggest putting a shark in the warmup pool or coloring the water Crimson, don't bother--he's already thought of it. "I put 14 bottles of red food coloring in the pool to see if it's stay red,"Essick said, "but the circulation was too good. Now everyone's probably got cancer from all that red dye number...
...Perfect. Sometimes SN is awful. Comedian Albert Brooks' taped films were at first a regular feature, but offered only ten minutes of boredom. The Muppets are cloying grotesques. The funniest jokes are the simplest: a land shark who gobbles up apartment dwellers; a parody of Catherine Deneuve's Chanel No. 5 ad which ended with a perfume bottle stuck to Guest Host Candice Bergen's head. A lot depends on the guest hosts who change each week and around whom an entire show is written. Among the first tapped by Michaels were Comedian George Carlin and Actor...