Word: sitcomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might guess, is a romance between the Air Force pilot turned taxi driver, played by the ingenuous Robert Hays, and the stewardess who takes over the co-pilot's chair from Kareem Abdul-Jabar. Julie Hagarty plays the sallow, teary type--she's sure to snag a nighttime sitcom role from this appearance...
HAPPY END is schizophrenic--an anomalous lark. The biting, sardonic music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht don't fit the sitcom plot. The play's as far from Brecht & Weill's Three penny Opera as a Keystone Kops film is from Little Caesar. Both plays recount the daring misdeeds and romantic entanglements of a gangster, but Threepenny Opera's sordid outlaws become Happy End's petty, bumbling bullies. Despite a denunciation of capitalism tacked on at the end, Happy End is insubstantial fluff, a romantic comedy expertly staged and acted by the American Repertory Theatre Company...
...Harvard professor stars in a verbal free-for-all in Boston "Drink up!" WCVB-TV Producer Claude Pelanne told the studio audience as it waited for the taping to begin. The wine glasses were quickly drained. Pelanne was not preparing the 40-odd guests for some mindless sitcom: he was readying them for Miller's Court, a Boston television show in which the audience matches wits on controversial issues of the law with Arthur Miller, a professor from the Harvard Law School. The result: an uninhibited, often dramatic and sometimes humorous encounter that now is viewed...
Nonetheless, the two are drawn to each other in large and little tendernesses and spats. This is where the play drifts into emotions of sitcom dimensions. Herb falls in love with Libby, not incestuously, but romantically and possessively. Libby's mocking jests cannot hide the scars of the unrestorable years. At one point, she pins Herb down, demanding to know why he divorced her mother. Herb rather lamely answers that the lady totally lacked a sense of humor. Logically, this is the weak point of the play. A man as perceptive as Herb would have spotted a congenital...
Every year at about this time, the Actors Theater of Louisville, in Kentucky, puts on a dramathon. Nine new American plays are presented in three days. The guiding themes this year might be labeled God, country and family, the last just barely above the TV sitcom level. Thanks to Jon Jory, Louisville's producing director, every play, whatever its aesthetic caliber, comes off with skill, finesse and devotion. Herewith, three of the rewarding best...