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...South House production, ensconced in Jonathan Star's invitingly-blue, comic-strip backdrop, succeeds because it doesn't take itself too seriously. The actors all capture the innocence that each part demands and, at the same time, deliver an untortured and easy-going rendition of their characters. Director Becky Stone leads them through the least playful scenes with a great deal of common sense. She understands that the show's primary goal is to entertain, and wields a strong supervisory hand so that Charlie Brown stays far away from its moralizing potential...
...Schatz portrays perhaps the first mustachioed Snoopy ever seen on stage with much comic skill. Schatz falters when he fails to turn "Suppertime," his rollicking song and dance about eating his dinner, into the showstopper it's meant to be. Perhaps his lackluster performance can be attributed in part to the band, which seems slightly off beat in this number. For most of the show, however, the orchestra has the audience tapping its feet, and those who know the words singing along...
...stream-of-consciousness monologue skipping erratically from dogs to other animals to firearms (Reagan has a small gun collection and does some target shooting, though he does not hunt) and concluding with a reading aloud from that day's installment of Doonesbury, one of Reagan's favorite comic strips. In a 1965 autobiography, recalling his elation at acting in college plays, Reagan wrote, "Nature was trying to tell me something ?namely, that my heart is a hamloaf...
Sexual Perversity is a string of these revelations, a blinking sequence of comic vignettes. The tiny lives of Danny Shapiro, Bernie Litko, Deborah Solomon and Joan Webber unfold like used cocktail napkins seeped in ritualized sexual juices at the bottom of a human sink. They go to single bars, they talk about sex as if it were running for president, they talk dirty in bed ("cum tastes like the junior prom...it smells like clorox but it tastes like the junior prom,") and they comment on the sexual revolution ("what do you think this is, the past...
...delightfully detailed performance as Francis, from his nasal prissiness and grandmotherly peevishness to his awkward, chunky waddle. As his father, John Lagioia affects the stance of a fifth-grade toughie, his bluster sometimes dissolving into a haggard awareness. As Bunny, Laurel Cronin's intelligence, feeling--those drunken arias!--comic timing, and, finally, beauty are every bit as elephantine as her frame. There is fine support from Kaye Kingston's ghoulishly tacky Lucille and Ann Kerry's fetching Judith, but the find of the evening is John Cassisi's heart-wrenching Herschel--his breath rushing to catch up with his voice...