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Countless numbers of people have turned prematurely gray or sported new bald spots from their coaching activities. For instance, with each turnover in the defensive zone, Harvard men's hockey coach Ronn Tomassoni gets one step closer to turning to Sy Sperling of the Hair Club for Men. And every miscue makes softball coach Jenny Allard's hairdresser's job more difficult...
...course, winning helps, but the activity itself is what it's all about. And even if I need Sy Sperling's special procedure after June 6, the whole experience will have been well worth...
...SY SPERLING...
...best performance in this production is that of Cynthia Dunbar as Alice Miller, one of the other comedy writers. To be fair, Alice gets most of this show's best lines ("Sy, these jokes are old enough to vote") and it is probably not a coincidence that the New York reviewers liked the actress who played Alice the best as well. The expansion of Alice's role is one welcome change from the movie and Dunbar plays the wise-cracking dame to perfection...
Julian Chu is excellent as Alice's boss, Sy Benson. His manic ravings are hysterically funny, particularly when he and the rest of the writing team act out "The Musketeer Sketch" for King Kaiser, the star of Comedy Cavalcade. Equally admirable is Vanessa Livingston as Belle Steinberg Carroca, Benjy's mother. Decked out in terrifically tacky costumes, Livingston plays the perfect Brooklyn matron without relying on a heavy accent or overdone mannerisms. Angelina Zappia is also good as the pleasantly earnest Downing...