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...Dale, 38, does not depend on gymnastics. He is one of the rare per formers whose magnetism rills every cubic inch of the house while his eyes count it. Working from a slapdash adaptation of Moliere's classic farce, Les Fourberies de Scapin, he keeps the evening fresh with the pleasure of his company. For one thing, he is a flirt. He vamps fellow actors even as they trade invectives. But the audience gets his most collusive winks and slanted asides...
...Frogs, as Aristophanes wrote it, is a kind of ironically motivated slapdash quest to restore a major dead dramatist to the ranks of the living. It might wryly be regarded as one of those periodic efforts to save the ailing theater. The god Dionysus (Larry Blyden) resolves to go down to Hades and bring back Euripides. In the Shevelove version, Bernard Shaw substitutes. As his companion, Dionysus takes along his obese, grumbling Sancho Panza-like servant Xanthias (Michael Vale). They have their slapstick encounters, not only with the cranky Charon, who speaks like a movie gold prospector, but with enticing...
With the addition of "slapdash" and "ill-timed," that perfectly describes a new musical called More Than You De serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...
...Leverett House Arts Society, which earlier sponsored a joyful, slapdash version of "The Threepenny Opera" seems to want above all to have the kind of good time that can be shared with an audience...
Most of the comedy stays at this slapdash level. Raquel Welch, looking as ever like a performer hired to entertain visiting conventioneers, plays a policewoman assigned to bag a rapist who is prowling the parks. There is a dizzying number of other subplots, most of which revolve clumsily around the 87th's efforts to bring to justice a sinister saboteur (Yul Brynner) who threatens to extinguish the mayor...