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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grafstein, the musical even has a message or two, but neither time nor space permit an explanation of that as well. Craig Siegel...
...Lampoon is this University's very own congeries of self-styled funnymen and second-story acrobats. Apparently, the Lampoon has decided to stop publishing their delightful in-house journal, or so we must surmise. But they have turned to the theater, and the result is On the Lam, a two-hour "comedy" revue starring Chris Clemenson, Grace Shohet, Brian McCue, and Fred Barton. Now we can get the same ten laughs we used to get in ten minutes, skimming the Lampoon during a tenure on the Porcelain Throne, spread out over a full two hours in the congenial Adams House...
Those ten laughs are good ones, and probably worth the price of admission, which is, as the show constantly reminds us, "only a buck." Almost every scene has one good gut-buster, and some have two; cleverness sparkles in the opening "trio" and the talk show sketch, among others. Besides, the laughs are very evenly spaced out around the vast Russian steppes of tedium. And if you don't feel like laughing, there'll always be a well-orchestrated Lampoon claque there to help you along. It's amazing the way these people have learned to threw their voices...
...overacting to compensate for the script--and maybe a little resentful, a little angry with himself for getting involved in all this. Actually, it's a lot like watching Olivier host Saturday Night Live. Worse, Borowitz and his court set to cutting scenes for length (still leaving a two hour leviathan, without intermission) they cut a few of Clemenson's funnier sketches, including an exuberant parody of Harry Reasoner. The show suffers...
...WHAT ELSE are you going to do on a Friday night? It is, after all, only a dollar, which makes it, at worst, the cheapest two hours of punishment in Boston, There's Chris Clemenson: talent sometimes peeks its head out of the quicksand. You know you'll laugh and you know you'll sleep, and I advise you to ingest the sort of central nervous depressants that enhance both. Besides, who knows? Maybe John Simon will be there with his Luger...