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...Kansas of The Wiz is as close to middle America as Harlem's Lenox Avenue at 125th Street. The show, with all new music and lyrics, is saucy with black urban humor. Its talk is jumping jivernacular, its walk is a big-city strut, its dances have a blowtorch frenzy, and its songs range from a warm gospel glow to the rock beat of a riveter mining asphalt...
...house and his wife says "You've been with Kagle today." (Kagle is Slocum's limping co-worker). And he says, "How do you know?" So he didn't know he's picking up a limp. Now that, I think, is surrealistic. I think a person might develop a strut or a swagger, that of somebody else with whom he associates, but certainly not a limp. whom he associates, but certainly not a limp...
Forefeel of Fame. "Apart from incipient lunacy," writes Vadim, "I have been in excellent health throughout adulthood." He can be pleased with a literary career, which brought him in youth the heady "forefeel of fame" and later allowed him to strut as "a fat, famous writer in his powerful forties." Lechery has been a constant, though a Humbert-Lolita relationship with his daughter never flowered to the extent that he, in damp imagining, would have liked. Yet to each of four prospective brides, he has had to admit that he is cracked: "I have a confession to make, Iris, concerning...
...founded the race of Vietnamese. And that's how we came to be different from them and why they strut...
...Evening has no primary characters, but a few stand out because they defy ordinary stereotyping. Roger Hoefer is superb as Roscoe the pimp, along side Mattie Mangrum's equally fine performance as Madam Alberta K. Johnson ("The 'Madam' stands for business"). Both are absolutely confident as they strut around the stage enjoying their lives steeped in desire, running the numbers for low-lifers. Roscoe is all jive and no-give, but he's more than just a superficial pimp on the make, because he can appreciate the "eeeeasy role down in the bassss, Rolling like I like...