Word: skulnik
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...industry. So does the title: on Seventh Avenue there are five seasons-spring, summer, fall, winter and slack. In Miss Regan's farce, things are slack to start with and touch & go all the way. Heading the cast and gamely shouldering the burden are Yiddish Theater Comedian Menasha Skulnik and Broadway Veteran Richard Whorf. Skulnik, a mournful-looking, richly accented, frequently funny comic, handles the humor; Whorf, the drama. A married man who guiltily sins with a model, Whorf makes this part of his role as convincing in itself as it is out of key with the rest...
...shenanigans and sentiment, parades live models and dead wheezes, has touches of realism and great chunks of hokum. The Fifth Season comes, theatrically, from a very dull and noisy family: what is surprising is not that so much of it is painful, but that some of it-thanks to Skulnik...