Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first attempt at writing Broadway, comedy has resulted in a clever and, at times, very funny play. But it falls down where most comedies of its sort usually to--when the inherent humor of the original situation wears thin and the action sinks to meaningless dialogue. The plot of "Never Say Never" is reminiscent of the "Voice of the Turtle"; a young couple named Coralie and Alex live together in a New York apartment without the formality of marriage because the girl wishes to retain her independence. Complications set in when a former hometown beau comes to visit Coralie...
...Madame Butterfly. I hoped for a new leading man to rival Ezio Pinza. I got Wilbur Evans. . . an old uncle with the fire gone out. . . Only a moderately enchanting evening. People will say I'm in love . . . with Oklahoma!" The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson thought the plot moved too slowly. Said he: "It seemed to be more like South Soporific." Yet the critics, despite their reservations, were quick to admit that South Pacific seemed destined to enchant Londoners almost indefinitely...
Marcello's downfall begins when he zealously volunteers for a role in a political murder plot, and funks it. At the same time he finds that Giulia, his angel of normality, has her Lesbian side. But he really goes to pieces when he finds that the man he shot years ago is alive & kicking. Marcello lives just long enough after that to realize that his whole life has been twisted by "a thing that never happened." Then he dies in an air raid...
...book, the significant part of the plot takes place in the form of a flashback, imaginatively set up by the use of sliding backdrop. The action moves from the present to the late 1920's without an obtrusive break, from Westchester to a Massachusetts town named Clyde (presumably fashioned afer Newburyport...
...plot is contrived to an extreme, having to do with a million dollar inheritance which can be awarded only if one of the characters gives birth to a son before a certain time. This becomes clear sometime in the middle of the second act. Unfortunately, many people who attended the opening performance had left before that time...