Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even those have aged poorly, as Yankees has--can provide a lot of theatrical lightning. All they need to work is plenty of love, speed and style. In the Agassiz Yankees, the love and speed are there; it's the lack of style that often sends this enormously pleasant show into the doldrums...
...atmosphere, the production loses the nutty chaos that should make it tick. Birnbaum's own brand of ingenuity seems to lie with the quick double-entendre gag-vulgarity that goes against the grain of this particular musical. Just about everything the director does points at, rather than ignores, the show's leanly plotted and generally unfunny George's Abbott-Douglas Wallop book...
Much of this kind of joy derives from the work of choreographer Ron Porter, who sends his dancers through whirlwinds of frenetic steps, jump and whoops. His "Heart" number is a show stopper, as the baseball players scamper all over the place under the robust leadership of Bob Bush, the salty team manager...
...talented individuals and springy dances, Agassiz' Damn Yankees can never throw off the burden of a book in which things happen so dully and a director who does so little to slick it all up. Go to Agassiz expecting spasmodic thrills, but plan to find you ecstasy after the show is over...
...Faulkner was heir to. The Southernness is right: "A homogenization has taken place. I'm not sure Faulkner's 'South' still exists, it exists only as a memory. But unless I still smelled the country I know so well, I wouldn't have chosen to write..." What doesn't show is the artist's sensitivity...