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...Hugh Scott were your girlfriend's father, you might stop by a bit early so that you could chat with him a while before your date. He looks like a past president of the Kiwanis, has a Major Hoople-ish voice just perfect for harrumphing (although he does not indulge) and a sense of humor just dry enough to let him refer to a political enemy as "that rodent" and pull it off. In addition, the dapper Senator from Pennsylvania has a delightful penchant for the well turned phrase (he often emits a self-congratulatory chortle after some especially well...
Many of the other performers, particularly Paula Wayne, who plays Joe's white girlfriend and his manager's mistress, give life to roles the book only sketches out. The sparse sets are brilliantly backed by a series of realistic and impressionistic photographs of New York projected on screens. Tony Walton's designs do much of the work of director Peter Coe. These afford continuous movement from scene to scene and establish changes of emotional coloring within scenes and songs by their own changes in perspective and color...
...master of his master. A reversal of roles is certainly central to Harold Pinter's screenplay in The Servant. But Pinter and director Joseph Losey hint at much more--and hint is about all they do--for while milord falls from high estate, diabolical manservant wages war with snooty girlfriend, and the gentleman is more the pawn than the prize. The meaning of the conflict? Well--it's hard...
...most of the jokes are lousy, at that. The show starts with a phone call from David's girlfriend. Mr. Foreman picks up the receiver, asks who's calling, and exclaims, "Wanda? What kind name is Wanda?" That's a joke. Yet there are flashes of wit: vicariously excited by David's reports, his friend Marvin asks David if he undressed the leading lady (Yvonne De Carlo--and what an asset she has) or vice versa. David hesitates a second and then debonairly replies, "We got a kid off the streets and paid him a quarter to do it," (After...
...have seen the boss's girlfriend...