Word: toadstools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Settings for any production of Peter Pan are an especial challenge since the script calls for seven different scene changes. However, William D. Roberts has provided some sparkling and highly imaginative ones for Group 20, complete with toadstool benches and a foldaway bed. Perhaps such a complicated show technically is a bit ambitious for a stage without a curtain. All set changes must be made by hand, and are, therefore, unduly long...
Star of the evening was Baritone Warren. He had a few bad moments when the audience first glimpsed his toadstool-shaped black armor and snickered. But he came through, as always, with sane, reliable singing in a beautiful voice. Bronx-born Baritone Warren spent a year and a half learning his part, and if he seemed just a bit boring as Charles V, it was probably because he understood the boring role so well...
...editors. Dahl has an unfunny one on the Watch and Ward, and there is an illegibly signed cartoon that picks off another one of television's sitting ducks. A couple of drawings seem to have appeared in the issue either by whim or mistake: a gnome creeping toward a toadstool which has a naked woman lying atop it, and a poorly-drawn baseball pitcher winding up on page 28 to throw to an unequally uninspiring batter on page...