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...this is remarkable because Mr. Cooper has so many people in his Dogpatch. More than forty characters parade across the stage, all of them in splashy, comic strip costumes. Only a few mistakes could have produced a traffic jam as embarrassing as the one expected at the World's Fair. But there is no congestion, and Mr. Cooper has succeeded in making Al Capp's Dogpatchers more than a collection of slightly improbable freaks...
Director Cooper has taken what easily could have been an unmitigated disaster on a House stage and produced a finely integrated whole. His show does more than hang together, however; it jumps, it bounces, it swings with an exuberance that lasts throughout the evening. Dogpatch is not merely put on the stage for us to look and laugh at. Mr. Cooper has created a Dogpatch--a live, wonderfully human community of real people whose warmth goes beyond the curtains to envelop the audience...
...such absurd, Dogpatch-like creatures be thought equal to civilized people...
Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who took the writing and production credits for the Broadway show, Li'l Abner boasts an appropriate Dogpatchy plot. After a nationwide survey, Dogpatch is declared "the most unnecessary place in these U.S.," and selected as the site of the next A-bomb test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens...
...Lecture. Under the cool slopes of Monduli Mountain last week Edward Mbarnoti, dressed in a ceremonial blue robe and a monkey-hair headdress, officially received the chieftainship from Tanganyika Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, and resplendent British uniforms mingled with the Dogpatch garb of spear-carrying Masai elders and tribesmen. Edward's coronation speech was a simple statement of Masai needs: legal recourse against farmers squatting on Masai lands, improved water facilities, a share in the profits of the tourist-frequented game reserves given up by the Masai...