Word: shavianly
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...show only ran three months, but it came within two votes of winning the Drama Critics Circle Award. Chapman's favorite playwright, his paragon, is Shaw, and Billy Budd revealed in Chapman a Shavian concern for getting across a message of morals and ethics...
...downhill, and I'm not young and easy anymore. Now Gobel is selling pork and beans. Feiffer has stayed just the same -- perhaps I've come to resent him some for that stagnation -- and behold, those Limeys come back, and they haven't changed either. Michael Flanders, archetype of Shavian urbanity (imagine Peter Ustinov impersonating Tom Lehrer), and Donald Swann, a mad leprechaun escaped from some Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society (imagine Arthur Schlesinger impersonating Peter Pan) still jesting and warbling about Wilson and De Gaulle, dieting and astrology, parking problems and fixit-men. They are topical satirists...
...Martin plays a believably inspired Barbara with clarity and humor, but most of all with sincere devotion to her work in the Salvation Army. Edward Zang plays an Adolphus Cusins actively in love with both Greek and Barbara, and as the scholar-lover he possesses a fine sense of Shavian wit. Terrence Currier as Snobby Price, the hypocritically reformed worker, and Lawrence Pressman as Bill Walker, the unreformed bully, skillfully carry their roles as far as their director will let them. Surrounded by these fine performers, Joan White seems weak as Lady Britomart. She fails to convey the strength...
...both Erhardt and Miss Hawkins play their roles in a way consistent with Erhardt's interpretation. And like the rest of the cast, they managed to ground Shavian moralizing and epigrams on a firm base of Shavian entertainment...
...Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket...