Word: swazey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...