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...Iolanthe, Janet Walker acquits herself admirably; she sings beautifully and acts well. Jean' Taynton as the Fairy Queen is something of a ham, but a good ham is hard to come by, so who cares? Thomas Siegal would steal the show as Private Willis except that Lithgow has previously stolen it himself...
Happily, the show settles down to the real business of a wedding, which is squabbling and confusion. The negotiators, who would do credit to a disarmament conference, are Alfie Nathan (Shelley Berman), the bride's uncle and guardian, and Tilly Siegal (Eileen Heckart), the bridegroom's mother. Alfie innocently proposes a family affair in his living room, with only 40 guests present. Tilly wants the Old Oaks Country Club ("Problem weddings our specialty") and 400 guests. Alfie's defeat is honorable, and most of the time it is funny...
...talented Berman is a nightclub comic whose best turns are monologues into an invisible phone, and it is no surprise that the show's best number is one in which Berman writhes about on a phone (visible), plotting revenge on Tilly Siegal. Most of the time Alfie and Tilly manage to obscure Affair's most serious defect, which is that it works so terribly hard to provide a merely adequate evening's entertainment. One innovation is pleasing: the choruses depart from the epicene standard of Broadway musicals; the members, in fact, look a great deal like people...
Dudley seniors elected included William Cahill, David T. Roy, Gerald E. Siegal, and Herbert M. Wyman...
Scott Custer and Tony Smith will face George Siegal and Dave Gordon in the finals of the Mens' Doubles tennis tournament tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. on the varsity courts...