Word: wises
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...saying, therefore, the actors do remarkably well in surviving the onslaught of their own words. Alexis Susman, as Dora, employs the same "oh-me-oh-my" domestic manner when hanging out clothes to dry as she does in her protracted monologues about how frustrating existence is. Playing the petulant, wise daughter, complete with short skirt and skates, Alex Marolachakis as Sue, a.k.a. Squeezer (a childhood nickname), parallels the audience's experience as she constantly questions the absurdity of all that is happening ("None of my friend's parents talk like this," she exclaims at one point). Saadi Soudavar is inspired...
...their soaring melodies and plummy platitudes, R.&H. songs are secular hymns--liturgical music for the American mid-century. Sometimes, as in State Fair (originally written for Hollywood, now on view in a tatty theatrical version notable only as a showcase for Broadway's snazziest dancer, Scott Wise), the score is so wholesome that it practically cleans your teeth and does your homework while you hear it. But The King and I is smarter stuff, with perfect Rodgers ballads like Something Wonderful, beautifully sung here by the largely Asian cast...
...forced them to watch bad films: Ed Wood classics like Bride of the Monster and stuff way, way worse, like the 1965 Attack of the the Eye Creatures--a movie so inept that its makers put the word the twice in the title. Mike and the 'bots crack wise; we laugh; that's about it. This simple, supple premise allows for pop-cultural japes, low banter and a nice, acidy undertaste...
...Since Jesus' culture was oral, not written, they assumed that shorter, punchier passages were more likely to be accurate. They also felt safer confirming idiosyncratic thoughts that ran against the social or religious grain of Jesus' day, involved role reversals or, in keeping with the style of the wandering wise men of the time, employed exaggeration, humor and concrete and vivid images. They preferred parables without explicit applications...
...brother whose breech birth killed her is not in his heart. Ray has hidden his long-denied anger beneath a smoothly affable manner. Earl is hiding his more recent astonishment under stony taciturnity. But big-city circumstances force him to take refuge in Ray's home, where his blind, wise, straight-talking aunt (Irma P. Hall) maneuvers the brothers toward reconciliation...