Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Like Today" or "Where Would You be Without Me?" and attempt flashy theatricality. "The Joker" and "Who Can I Turn To?" seem to have been written more for Newley's nightclub act than for a musical comedy and Sellon's delivery of the songs bear ugly shades of Caesar's Palace. The writers reach the lowest depths of their lyrical abyss with "Feelin' Good," a number that sounds like it was lifted from some bastardized Porgy and Bess. In a semicomatose performance, Adam Finkel as The Hobo sings "Dragonfly out in the sun/You know what I mean/Butterflies havin' fun/You know...
Muhammad Ali entered the squared circle of Caesar's Palace in his best physical shape of the last five years. He was 38 years old, yes, but also a master of magic, and there were those who thought that he had harnessed all the weird motive forces of the universe that no one could name, and had summoned all available gods and demons to carry his spears. All the gauges and compasses of the rational mind said he couldn't win, but he was Ali, and therefore he could win; whether he would win, though, was another thing...
...passion--for what is not exactly clear. Now is the time to get paranoid, so that when you get here, you are so numb from paranoia that you can be yourself. Have some jokes prepared--popular ones this year are likely to be, "Hey, did you hear Julius Caesar's in our class?" or, "Hey, I just saw a piece of graffiti saying `Napoleon Bonaparte '84.'" Don't bother memorizing your SAT score; just tell anyone rude enough to ask that you got straight 800s. That'll show...
...should have the guts to betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than their country Rome." In fact, Forster had it backward. Dante placed Brutus and Cassius in the ninth circle for the same reason he put Judas there, not because the three sinners were disloyal to friends but rather because they were disloyal to Church and Empire, and thus...
HAPPY END is schizophrenic--an anomalous lark. The biting, sardonic music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht don't fit the sitcom plot. The play's as far from Brecht & Weill's Three penny Opera as a Keystone Kops film is from Little Caesar. Both plays recount the daring misdeeds and romantic entanglements of a gangster, but Threepenny Opera's sordid outlaws become Happy End's petty, bumbling bullies. Despite a denunciation of capitalism tacked on at the end, Happy End is insubstantial fluff, a romantic comedy expertly staged and acted by the American Repertory Theatre Company...