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...confirmed the dark suspicions of Oswald Spengler, who liked to think that the twilight of Western civilization will be marked not by true religion, but by an upsurge of fervid religiosity. Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera that is rocking Broadway's new season, is show biz with a twist: Director Tom O'Horgan, who was influenced by Olsen & Johnson, has made it into a sort of Heavenzapoppin...
...NHTSA warned that the engine mounts can give way on Chevies that were built in the model years 1965 through 1969-a total of about 5.6 million cars. The mounts consist of a layer of rubber bonded between two metal plates. When a mount gives, the engine can twist from its moorings while the car is moving. When this happens, it is possible that the gear shift will lock, the car accelerate wildly, and the brakes fail. There have been numerous crashes but no known fatalities; most drivers have remained cool enough to switch off the ignition and come...
...would seem, is to take up the basic elements of cliche (a triangle of husband, detective and adulterous wife in the case of The Public Eye and a where-were-you-when-the-lights-went-out French farce for the purposes of Black Comedy), give them an added, knowing twist, and reissue them as spruced up bits of comedy quite capable of laughing at even themselves. (And at their audiences too, Mr. Shaffer?) Happily it works, even if only about 50 per cent of the time...
...stuffy English husband-type (John Archibald), a loudly attired private detective (Peter Kazaras), and, eventually, the frighteningly energetic wife (Melissa Mueller) who is the subject of their investigation. And I'm afraid that's about all I can tell if I'm not to give away the one twist of plot. I would suspect that, since most of the play's humor is sadly dated in a late fifties-early sixties sort of way (there are jokes about psychoanalysts, coffee bars and Kismet), the play's real interest lies in the fledgling hints it gives of Shaffer's present London...
...play follows the path already too well-worn by Rod Serling and friends. The only original moment comes at the very end when an additional plot twist gives us our illusion-reality theme in a slightly different perspective. But by then it's too late. The entire production is bogged down and almost destroyed by being presented as a reading, either because of lack of rehearsal time or because the magical effects were simply too difficult. The actors had trouble acting and reading at the same time, and Maideg Bouchery was simply too Transylvanian to be believed...