Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fred Allen called "the man with the barefoot voice" brought to mind images from a simpler America: Will Rogers, Huckleberry Finn. Sentimental Godfrey choked up while narrating President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral for CBS Radio and shed tears on TV while listening to a women's quartet sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. He shocked (and delighted) housewives by using a toy outhouse as a comic prop. Performing a chicken noodle soup commercial for one of his TV sponsors, Lipton's, Godfrey made a cup, spooned through it, and said, "I see lots of noodles...
...Afghanistan our trio encounters its first foreign culture, a rebel horde intent on driving out the British. (This, incidentally, makes the action hard to date precisely: Afghanistan won its independence in 1919, but the Charleston did not become popular overseas until the mid-20's.) Typical barbarians, they sing ethnic songs, dance wildly, offer to buy Eve, and delight in killing Enlishmen.(Never mind that the Afghans were nationalists fighting for liberation.) No tears, then, when O'Malley bombs half the camp out of existence while escaping. Or, as old man Tozer says after they find him in China. "There...
...feudal privilege known as droit de seigneur and, some hours later, reunites one character with an unlikely set of parents. Unity comes not from the storyline but from the voices, which without exception stay well in control of a difficult and lengthy score--especially Knowles, who must awkwardly sing the show's first notes from his knees...
Usually they have to wait for someone to break an ankle or catch the flu before they are allowed to sing those songs in public. But for one night last week at Manhattan's Town Hall, they held center stage, belting out lyrics for which they are not at all famous. A wistful young woman named Tracy Shayne gave her plaintive interpretation of What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line; Rhonda Coullet, helped by a regular cast member, Cass Morgan, did a comic number from Pump Boys and Dinettes; and Ruth Brisbane brought down the house with...
...PLAY also satirizes law school professors, one of whom describes himself as "a flake off the upper crust." "In probably the best musical number in the show, students impersonate the two famous negotiators, Profs. Roger Fisher (Ken Hodder) and Frank Sander (Jacques Semmelman) who sing a competitive, "I can do anything better than you can" duo called Getting...