Word: skit
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...Kornfield's lead sounded unnaturally strained and was occasionally drowned out by background vocals, but she gave a remarkably professional performance. Kornfield remained in character despite an unusual accident stemming from the large "sack of wheat" which dropped on her while she was playing a Kurd in the opening skit...
...Singer says parody is the Opportunes's specialty. The group tends "to change the words of a song that just came out to ones having to do with Harvard," he says. Singer cites a recent skit featuring the song "Bokman," and a number titled "VES Dropout," an adaptation of the classic "Beauty School Dropout" featured in the musical Grease...
...touching. In the second act is "Honeypot," a hilarious satire of the ridiculous sexual innuendo prevalent in early blues. Harad beautifully belts out lines such as "Put your monkey wrench in my sugar bowl," while Salie, as the disapproving psychiatrist, glowers. Even if one scene fails to entertain, no skit last longer than four or five minutes. The show is nothing if not fast-moving...
...Square. The three-hour wait for a glimpse of life abroad -- which is more precious than the Big Macs themselves -- has supplanted such cultural diversions as visiting the Bolshoi, which is usually either closed or touring abroad anyway. On a recent Sunday, a troupe of young actors staged a skit for waiting patrons in the McDonald's line. Thus the performers were fulfilling the oft-stated but little-realized communist goal of bringing culture to the masses by going to where the masses can always be found...
...long-lost sons, Romans and Britons, master and servant, etc. provides enough humor to make the preceding hours of boredom seem worthwhile. There is even a moment of divine intervention to add the final touch. As an audience member remarked audibly: "It's better than a Saturday Night Live skit...