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...Pooh-Bah is engaging and suitably gorged, if a little stock. Dennis Crowley, as the Lord High Executioner is the spitting image of Alfred E. Neumann, and reacts to this madness just as the old man would, reeling off his "list" with pizazz. And Willis Emmons as Pish-Tush illuminates the show: of all the leads, he's most able to sing and act at the same time while compromising neither--the first requirement of a good G&S performance...
Sexually liberated by the seventies, the old man recounts his slow development 200 years of breast-feeding. Listing great discoverers of history, he mentions Onan--"He discovered himself." But after relating his sensuous experience with Dolly Madison in a vat of ice cream--"My tush was cold for a week" he cracks a stale Playboy joke: "The presidents if they're not doing it to their wives, they're doing it to the nation...
...MARY TUSH...
...Tushingham, 23, played an illegitimate teen-age girl left pregnant by a passing Negro sailor and befriended by a young homosexual. Well, that sort of squalor was one thing, but when Britain's Associated Television offered her the part of an Irish country girl who turns to drink, Tush demurely demurred. "I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk," she explained teetotally. "I have never been drunk in my life and don't expect I ever will...
Need something for an elderly maiden aunt? Here is romantic pish-tush, complete with nobility, scurrility, offstage virility, plight, blight, violent demise and intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations...