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Like Tolins, Andrew Gardner (Sid Down) has perfect on-stage demeanor. He, like almost everyone else, is victimized by the material, particularly in a scene with Stan Byeme (Ted Stimpson) that has to rank among the show's absolute lowlights. The two actors exchange positions across the stage never seeing one and other. This farce is unbearably long and must be the authors' idea of parody of parody...
Like several other scenes in Bye Bye Verdi, the Sid Down-Stan Byeme exchange seems utterly pointless, serving only to lengthen the production and irritate the increasingly restless audience...
...costumes are, in the Pudding tradition, wonderfully creative and good for some of the shows biggest laughs. Willie Everstop wears a Barn Aid t-shirt and Stan Byeme's cowboy getup is a crackup...
...years making mellower music for the country-club set, suffering in the end the ignominy of accompanying himself with tapes "because I couldn't afford a band. Then I didn't sing at all for a couple months, and I, like, went crazy." When the invitation to sing with Stan came along last year, he leaped for it. "I've always liked this music. I knew I could do it." And indeed he can. Using arrangements that were surefire lady-killers 40 years ago, Lupi can work a room, provoking now and then the odd swoon. Should have heard...
...them in the microwave and then eat them in the bed. Beautiful. They taste just like they did in the street." Given the hour this musician eats, the fuel he takes in is a kind of restorative. With apologies to Count Basie, you could call it Stan's One O'Clock Jump...