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After lunch, Keng's men perform an amateur hour, including a skit in which the troops find eggs, a gift from the local peasants. They are not allowed to accept gifts, but finally reach a compromise and exchange a copy of the quotations of Chairman Mao and a letter of thanks for the eggs...
...mind you. I'd just as soon not be bothered by such questions myself. And there's enough real fun in Godspell to make such an evasion guiltless. I could explain how the cast will suddenly start muttering "Hubba, Hubba" or how one of its members will introduce a skit by saying, "Chapter number 22, verse number 19, take 3. O-K, kids, this one's for the money," but it doesn't really come to life until you see them all in action. So then, what does it matter that Godspell tells about as much about religion...
Twigs is the modest title of a modest play that is modestly amusing. Playwright George Furth, who wrote Company's fine book, is skit-and short-story-minded-not the stuff from which sturdy drama is made. He outlines his Twigs' characters like figures in a child's coloring book, and he proceeds to crayon them onstage without depth...
Only a week before Bayh's sudden announcement, Marvella had joined the wives of other Democratic aspirants in a bit of singing and spoofing for a party skit at a capital hotel. The following day, she was admitted to Washington's Columbia Hospital for Women to have a biopsy for possible cancer. The results were positive. In the next two days, surgeons removed one of her breasts. In the corridor outside Marvella's hospital room, Bayh gathered his top political aides and told them he was quitting. They did not protest...
...politics, and alienation but the overt theme is usually beside the point. It is the style of each individual piece that really makes the show. Some have a verbal brilliance that suggests what Printer or Joyce might have done if they had been born in this country. One skit, called "Image Sales," is a staccato recitation of brand names, commercial pitches, and want ads that conjures up visions of America choking on its own verbal clutter. Another mixes the language of a Brooklyn barroom with the rhythmic moans of an OMchant. Other vignettes are purely visual, as when, after going...