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There are good things in the first act; Jeffrey Wayne Davies' General Stanley is perfectly marvelous, and his version of the General's great song ("I am the very model of a modern major general") is quite fine. Nicholas Wyman as the Pirate King has a particularly good basso, which he uses to advantage. His acting, while good, could use improvement...
...Karen Wyman (nee Weinman), 17, though barely tall enough to clear a slot machine, played the main room of Las Vegas' Sands the night her class graduated from high school. A demonstration record the year before had won her an appearance on NBC's Dean Martin Show. "From hearing your record," the star told her, "I expected some tall, zoftic girl. Are you a midget?" The 5-ft. 1-in. Karen, having steeled herself to be blasé over meeting "this 52-year-old man," found that "he was gorgeous, and I broke out in hives." Karen...
...dirty language, I am getting a headache!"). Karen is studying with Speech Coach Dorothy Sarnoff to get rid of her accent. "I'm nadda girl from The Bronx anymore," she says. While their futures promise neither the disasters nor the distinction of a Garland or Piaf, Wyman and Budd are mostly fighting the comparison with Streisand. Of course, as Julie says, "that's better than being compared with, say, Sadie Glick...
...Wyman Pendleton contributes a deft cameo as a lawyer who revels in hair-splitting; similarly with the paunchy Cockney sergeant of John Tillinger. Joseph Maher gets considerable mileage out of Major Swindon, who-echoing the Queen of Hearts' exclamation in Alice in Wonderland: "Sentence first-verdict afterwards"-proclaims, "We have arranged [the hanging] for 12 o'clock. Nothing remains to be done except to try him." At one point Shaw has him say, "You insolent-," breaking off after the adjective. Here Maher provides the noun "bastard"-which Shaw likely had in mind but could not have got by the stage...
...smaller roles, Jan Miner brings a neat touch of coarseness to the Widow of Florence, undoing her tightly-laced bodice when she sits down to talk; and Amy Taubin has some amusing moments as her seduced daughter Diana. Wyman Pendleton seems to draw strength for the elderly lord Lafew from his walkingstick, whereas the strange Gentleman (Ken Parker) seems to draw his from a bottle. Tom Tarpey makes a valiant attempt at Lavatch, but nothing can hide the fact that this is one of the most tiresome clowns ever penned (in his 1953 production at Stratford, Ontario, Tyrone Guthrie obviated...