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...plays the baby and at that point is waiting with amazing realism. "It reminds me of a Unicef ad or something.") The tragic parts of the play tend of be melodramatic and over-sincere, and the come lines are often trite (there are basically two kinds of jokes rat-human analogies and snide references to New York suburban stereotypes...
...real baby's. Dressed in white diapers over a black leotard and tights (it's supposed to be a black baby, of course, just to punch in that social message), she's the only one of these casual performers who wears a costume. Bruce Kraus plays a successful old rat with a crusty exterior covering up his sentimental inside, and Rees Morrison is the innocent young rat who's just migrated from Greenwich. Connecticut to make his way up in the big city. The two play well opposite each other moving quickly back and forth from over acted melodrama...
...right up against us." After the play the audience gets served choose (provided by each House at ten dollars per performance) and has a chance to talk to the actors. That's when you find out that Bruce, who mocks Rees throughout the play for being a "madras commuter" rat from Greenwich, actually comes from Fairfield County himself. You may also find out what the actors thought of you as an audience, and where they disagreed with Glenda about how to say the lines, and how they view this Strolling Players business...
...counterculture, of which I am a part, has discovered that it would rather grow its food and lead a more peaceful life than the tedium of the 9-to-5 rat race...
...three networks offered disclaimers of a rat, horse or broadcast race. "It's accuracy that counts," insisted NBC Executive Producer Robert Northshield. "I didn't give one goddam who won the race. The minute I walk into the studio I always enjoy a suspension of citizenship." Still he was quick to recall that NBC had been the first to predict the Johnson victory in 1964. ABC News President Elmer Lower also demanded accuracy over immediacy-and put his network where his mouth was. Ronald Reagan, among others, had asked that broadcasters hold predictions until Western polls closed...