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More than once, people have come up to me on the street and said of Timothy Swazey (rhymes with "crazy") Mayer, director and choreographer of this amazing production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited, or The Flowers of Progress,--more than once, they have said...
Before last night I could never put my finger on just why that was true. Now it is clear. T. Swazey Mayer lives in the spirit of Gilbert and Sullivan...
...what did this fellow Swazey Mayer do? He strewed the opening scene with lovely, halfnaked things (girls, in case that leaves any ambiguity for the Allen Ginsberg set). For every occasion and for every character he created dances that showed the genetic influence of vaudeville, the Charleston, the Hasty Pudding, and Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. By some particularly brilliant stroke, he cast John Lithgow as Paramount the First, King of Utopia...
...riveted his eye in the mirror of the Select Cafe in Paris and said, in her low, exciting voice, "It is the only miracle"-meaning love. Duff took love and drink in immoderation. Depending on the flow of checks from England, she and her upper-Bohemian lover, Pat Swazey, lived on champagne or birdseed. Duff called strangers "darling" and friends "good chaps," had a title by marriage, and as anyone may guess, was the model for Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley. Though happily married, Hemingway was apparently just enough involved with Duff himself to be oath-muttering mad when...
Third: Stroke, Roger Drury, No. 7, Bray; No. 6, Keyes; No. 5, Burton; No. 4, Chace; No. 3, Rantoul; No. 2, Swazey; Bow, Farley; Cox, Bissell...