Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...muffs and fur coats and hats. Then they stepped out the door into the frozen flats of Bethel, Alaska (pop. 2,500, predominantly Eskimo). "We can't believe you're here," said Nancy Hohman, principal of the Bethel elementary school. Shivering against the 5°-below-zero weather, looking at the log cabin that passed for an airport terminal, neither could the musicians...
...adept burlesque performances of several cast members make the show. Though not the evening's best, Kenneth Kanter's Pseudolus is engagingly energetic. With girth rivalling that of the man who made the part famous, he successfully imitates some of Zero Mostel's protean expressions and lascivious gestures. He does not do as well vocally. As the starry-eyed lovers, John Lundeen and Lisa Landis--he callow, she nubile--are, appropriately, vacuously charming. But the real delight comes from the supporting cast. In the role of chief slave, Hysterium, at the beleagured household, Thomas Hann clowns in an epicene manner...
Someone gave him a derby, and he mugged with it, a finger held under his nose doing service for the famed mustache. Congresswoman Bella Abzug leaned over his table, clutching her floppy pink hat. "The audience, the audience!" he exclaimed to her. "Everybody was in the audience!" Actor Zero Mostel loomed up and kissed him from the depths of an enormous beard, Actress Claire Bloom, one of his leading ladies (Limelight, 1952), appeared at the table. Roulette Goddard-another protegee (Modern Times, 1936) and his third ex-wife-was somehow brought unscathed through the crowd to chat with...
...manufactured situations that have kept audiences laughing for 23 centu ries. This is not news on New York's Via Magna Alba. Ten years ago, Burt Shevelove's and Larry Gelbart's free adaptation of Plautus' plays convulsed playgoers for 964 performances. At that time Zero Mostel pranced onstage like an elephant with a hotfoot in the star ring role of Pseudolus, a slave with a passion for freedom as avid as that of all 1 3 original colonies. He was gloriously funny, and in this revival of A Funny Thing Happened...
...unit. An alternative might be that the Common Market currencies will continue to exist side by side, with each bank note carrying a printed table of its equivalent value in sister currencies. Already the ministers have agreed that the trading margins of their money will eventually be reduced to zero...