Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Chevalier and Diahann Carroll team up in "C'est la Vie," a Franco-American entente cordiale filmed in Paris...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The stage version folded before opening night, but the movie goes on and on: Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Lotte Lenya sings the compositions of her late husband in "The World of Kurt Weill," while telling the life story of the composer whose music is equally at home on the opera stage and in the lowliest dive...
...story of course oozes whimsy. The broader humor of Larry Gage's Lowell House production comes across fresh and funny. Toad (John Sansone), who regrettably is far too thin for a toad, bounces around the stage, bubbling, buzzing and boop-booping his phonic fantasies of motoring. Water-rat (David Baughan) and Mole (Carla Barringer) playfully "mess around the river" while a chorus of small, furry animals endears itself...
...show's most disturbing gracelessness is Director Gage's blocking. Given a spacious stage, fine lighting and colorful costumes he seems to have taken care to crowd bodies in small spaces and to compose lopsided stage pictures. In lieu of pacing riot scenes--the court-room scene and Toad's return to Toad Hall -- Gage throws his entire cast together for ten-second lumps of chaos, the quickest starting and fastest ending mob actions you've ever seen...