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Caroline Cross (Director) has gathered the cream of local acting talent into one smooth and professional cast, put them in the three-quarter round of an extremely serviceable setting (designed by Yoshiaku Shimizu), and given them some of the world's wittiest lines to speak. Quite clearly, it was a great night for Harvard drama...
...writes Michael McClure, and furthermore, WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP Most action poets profess to take religion seriously, "via crucis vicar son of a bitch render out with magnificat," cries Ebbe Borregaard, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the wittiest of them, writes of a "wiggy prophet . . . gentle as the lamb of God/made into mad cutlets." Many action poets describe "religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy...
...lived off the products and byproducts of my musical talents since I was 25." The products have included some of the best theater music (Four Saints in Three Acts and suites from Louisiana Story and The River) written in the U.S. Among the byproducts is some of the wittiest and most perceptive musical criticism. This week, at a concert of his music in Manhattan's Town Hall, Thomson celebrated his 63th birthday and 40 years of passionate proselytizing for modern music...
Mary, Mary. Broadway's brightest, wittiest play since The Moon Is Blue is a direct reflection of its author, Jean Kerr...
Even before the piece appears in print, her friends will hear excerpts, for anyone within the range of Jean Kerr's voice is a tryout audience. When friends go to see her new hit, Mary, Mary, Broadway's brightest, wittiest play since The Moon Is Blue (Warner Bros, bought it for more than $500,000), they are not surprised to recognize some of the best lines. For Jean Kerr writes as she talks, and she talks all the time. Once, at a party, a tape recording was made of Noel Coward singing; when it was played back, all that could...