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...Evening consists of two courses: antipasto--"A Broadway Revue," and entree--"Trouble in Tahiti," an opera in seven scenes. The general success of the menu is due to the remarkable quality of its five major ingredients: Carol Flynn, Greg Smith, Mike Dineen, Peter Ives, and last--as befits the prima donna--Wendy Shattuck...
...catch its breath, the audience has already been treated to an elephant hunt in search of ivory, a bushwhacking, a crocodile attack, a ship ramming, several pratfalls and-this being colonial Africa and all-several glimpses of bare-breasted native women. Lee Marvin, playing a bibulous adventurer named Flynn, and Roger Moore, appearing as Sebastian Oldsmith, an entirely too credulous old Eton boy fallen on hard times, alternately flail away at and consort with each other in a variety of cockeyed attempts to earn a dishonest dollar...
Oldsmith falls hard for Flynn's daughter Rosa (Barbara Parkins), who nurses him through a bout of malaria. Rosa tells her father she is pregnant at about the same time that Oldsmith makes a formal request for her hand in marriage. "What!" splutters the indignant father. "You ask for her hand when you've had everything else!" Of course there is a terrible fight, followed, in rough sequence, by a wedding, the birth of a daughter and the start of the first World War, which finds Flynn and his new family involved in fresh adventures, none more credible...
...Flynn House, the building that houses the development's 87 "senior citizen units," began to accept tenant applications Monday...
...returned for this production, the acting somehow seems stagey and lackluster. Surface characterization is emphasized at the expense of deeper emotional involvement. Siobhan McKenna plays Bessie Burgess with grandeur but drops the ends of her lines; Scorcha Cusack staggers a bit too much as Nora. Bill Foley, as Peter Flynn, says his lines as though reading them for the first time. Maire O'Neil, as the prostitute Rosie, makes immediate some of O'Casey's profoundest lines, his true revolutionary credo of communism--but her characterization slips occasionally into caricature. Still, Angela Newman, as Mrs. Gogan, manages to build...