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...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a bright musicomedy spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mount Rushmore's stone faces...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) is a light, bright spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative, tousle-haired, triple-jointed comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mt. Rushmore...
...called Why Do the Wrong People Travel? she is a song blaster in the megaton range. Choreographer Joe Layton paces the show with wryly inventive dance sequences, notably a goofily spastic Beatnik Love Affair. An Italian wedding party that turns into a tourist trap is a hilarious cross-cultural spoof. But the S.S. Coronia is really a ship of the desert, and it is a long dry haul between oases...
Penzance still lacks what it never had, the tart flavor of real social satire, but in Guthrie's version it serves nicely as a gentle spoof of a genteel spoof...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. The author observes, not kindly, the retreat of the British empire in Africa in this spoof of everyone up to the Prime Minister and down to visiting U.S. anthropologists...