Word: shubertism
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...about ten inmutes in the second act, a fine musical version of Juno and the Paycock is currently on view at the Shubert. These ten minutes show a backyard party, conducted to the tune of a cheerfully cheesy waltz, suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a woman on the way to the funeral of her son, who had been killed fighting for the Irish Republic. Most of the party, suddenly chastened, troop out as mourners, and the man who had been forced to inform on the dead soldier tries to relieve his feelings in a desperately gay dance...
...Heffernan in the role of the poet, seem more eager to present a "compelling" characterization than to act out their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment dweller, is the source of considerable amusement despite, and perhaps because of, its irrelevancy. Robert G.Skinner designed the setting, which...
...includes Green's hilarious version of the early groping talkies: a pompous baritone named "Donald Ronald" who happily mouths "Honeybunch, you drive me frantic with your smiles," but utters only a half-Nelson eddy of sound. After more silent facial farces, Green joins Betty in loudly husking cornier Shubert operettas (The Baroness Bazooka). There is also a Reader's Digest book condensation that scrunches Gone with the Wind into 22 words...
...work out in the role of Sammy Fong, he was quickly replaced by a more experienced stage veteran, Larry Blyden. A sentimental song was cut, and Blyden's part was beefed up; Hammerstein spent two days writing the lyrics of a new song, and Rodgers retired to the Shubert Theater ladies' room (which during rehearsals was equipped with a piano) and wrote the music in less than six hours. (His record: South Pacific's Bali Ha'i, which he wrote in five minutes over after-dinner coffee in a crowded room.) Result of the Boston change...
...current production is the work of an augmented version of the Charles Street Players, who did various things across the river last spring. The players now have a larger theater--tucked behind the Hotel Bradford, not far from the Shubert--and a conspicuously larger budget...