Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young Roman, Hero, loves a pretty virgin, Philia, who, alas, is sold to an army captain. The job of finagling her away falls to the young man's personal slave who hopes to gain his freedom by getting the girl. Boisterous Psuedolus does his best for his master Hero in the face of inumerable obstacles--Hero's horny but performance-conscious father, the virgin's scruples about... wine, the bumbling transvestitism of a slave in cahoots. His retreat-ridden advance to freedom is the center of the musical...
...some of Zero Mostel's protean expressions and lascivious gestures. He does not do as well vocally. As the starry-eyed lovers, John Lundeen and Lisa Landis--he callow, she nubile--are, appropriately, vacuously charming. But the real delight comes from the supporting cast. In the role of chief slave, Hysterium, at the beleagured household, Thomas Hann clowns in an epicene manner with impressive grace. Raymond Huessey and Mace Rosenstein are both excellent in their respective roles of the father, Senex, and the money-loving procuror, Marcus Lycus. As the self-admiring captain hot for his expensive virgin, Nicholas Weyman...
...heard to say of his fair complexion: "It's some kind of joke-white folks think I'm black and black folks think I'm white." Powell sought to confirm his blackness in his book Marching Blacks, published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City in 1908-the year Adam Jr. was born-to take the pastorship of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which he helped build to a membership...
...Magna Alba. Ten years ago, Burt Shevelove's and Larry Gelbart's free adaptation of Plautus' plays convulsed playgoers for 964 performances. At that time Zero Mostel pranced onstage like an elephant with a hotfoot in the star ring role of Pseudolus, a slave with a passion for freedom as avid as that of all 1 3 original colonies. He was gloriously funny, and in this revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo rum, Phil Silvers is every wit his equal...
...will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier, who stars with Harry Belafonte. Paramount will release The Legend of Nigger Charley, about a slave who kills his overseer and heads for the frontier-a Southern western...