Word: sleuths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts. Cosby is not unfamiliar with academic slow starters-in worse days he had to do a rerun of tenth grade. The second bananas are all first-rate, notably Judy Graubart, whose roles include Julia Grownup; Skip Hinnant, the Don Adams-style sleuth, Fargo North; Lee Chamberlin, as Rosalie the fortuneteller; and Morgan Freeman, the elongated Flip Wilson cast both as Easy Reader and a soul-sound disk jockey...
...that, since most of the play's humor is sadly dated in a late fifties-early sixties sort of way (there are jokes about psychoanalysts, coffee bars and Kismet), the play's real interest lies in the fledgling hints it gives of Shaffer's present London and Broadway smash Sleuth. Suffice to say that director Liz Coe has struggled valiantly to keep things moving (though when the blocking finally resorts to sending the actors up and down ladders exhaustion might have legitimately claimed the better part of valor) and Peter Kazaras as the insatiable detective has some bemused fun with...
Quite a few will go to no shows at all, some by choice, others deterred by old wives' tales. One myth is that the show you would like to see is sold out. Not true. There are only two sellouts, No, No, Nanette and Sleuth, and even in these instances a last-minute check at the box office may net you tickets. Another myth has it that the streets around the theaters are bristling with danger. Nonsense. Every single night, thousands upon thousands of playgoers attend theaters on Broadway and down to off-off-Broadway's remotest reaches...
...SLEUTH (284). This is the kind of thoroughly satisfying mystery thriller that comes along about as rarely as total eclipses of the sun. It is British, literate, wildly funny, and spiced with an edgy, menacing duel of wits and wills. In the lead roles, Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter are smashingly good...
...nobody paid much attention, least of all the owner's heir Violet, Lady Baird, who kept it in her cottage at Bray mainly because it reminded her of a dear friend. Then, in December 1967, she decided to sell a trinket or two. David Carritt, a renowned art sleuth then working for Christie's, obligingly visited the cottage at Bray, expecting nothing, and came away stunned. The painting, he said, "is one of the most rare, beautiful and important 15th century Flemish pictures anywhere in the world...