Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Muggeridge is sufficiently vapid as Rick the younger son, whose mind crawls along the ground like a snake. However, Seth Rolbein, as the priest who substitutes pseudo-scientific racism for Christianity is no more effective than the character he portrays...
...when compared to Eve's (Debby Rayson's) inability to find a register in which her troublesome voice will be content to stay. Eve weasels her way into Adam's hut, and finally into his heart, but not before they are both driven out of the garden by the Snake (David Cohen), dressed in white tie and black tails, who solves his vocal problem by not singing in any register...
...Make a Deal" than a medieval court of justice. In any case, the plot centers around the dilemma of Princess Barbara (Colleen McMahon), who falls in love with a soldier and must decide whether to give him to the beast or to another woman. The Snake supplies her with the information with which she can save or kill her lover. In one of the sultrier moments of the evening, Barbara sings "I've Got What You Want," and asks the musical question, "Better dead than wed?" The skit ends without ever revealing what her decision is, but by this time...
...final story, "Passionella, concerns Ella, played by Barbara Fazio, a chimney sweep who aspires to movie stardom. Her wish is granted by that irrepressible snake, and she finds her Prince Charming, a curious sequined admixture of Presley, James Dean and Jagger played by Michael Blake. "Passionella" is the most entertaining skit of the three. It is energetic and funny but, unfortunately, like the other skits, it is performed sloppily. Costume changes are made too hastily, sounds are emitted from the orchestra which have nothing to do with what is happening on stage, and the choreography is slipshod. Perhaps the plays...
Anna's picture of life on Haugsetvolden is colorful between grim scenes of starvation and cold. Eccentric rustics, of a sort peculiar to rural isolation, make up her little family. Old-Johan, the farmer's half-brother, almost dies of a snake bite that he is too reclusive to mention. A simple woman named Jenny destroys Anna's cabin when she takes seriously someone's joke that "it ought to be burned down...