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Producers of the Hasty Pudding. The atricals announced yesterday that they had chosen the script for the 150th Hasty Pudding production...
Chun described the play as "a very Pudding script" that includes jokes about Wellesley, Yale and tenured professors. It also includes a "pun run," which is a scene using a series of connected puns...
...solid gags in Frank Oz's deft direction of Paul Rudnick's pointed script, the biggest one is that it's not just Howard who seems gay. So do the teachers, the town barber, Howard's stolid brother. And what exactly is the gay style in a time when bullying machismo rules on the street and on the screen? It is to be pleasant, considerate, gently witty--virtues once celebrated in American life and Hollywood comedies...
...Music Box." One thing an audience should not feel in a drama this malignant is a niggling deja vu. Leigh, for once, drops the mannerisms, but her brisk performance is essentially a protracted walk-on. The husbands and other secondary characters barely register, serving a structural purpose in Jones' script that affords them little vitality...
...some cases the actors surpass their own script and achieve the seemingly impossible task of carrying 'Shlemiel' to a higher plane. Benjamin Evett who plays the mischievous Chaim Rascal as well as the Chelmish sage Dopey Pretzel, when not stealing Shlemiel's latkas is doing the same with the stage. Comfortable and at ease with the silliness with the lyrics, he sings with the glee of a Puck and the energy to match the Klezmer Band's clarinet. Also exceptional are the buffoon Gronam Ox and his wife Yenta Pesha (Marilyn Sokol). Shlemiel himself (Will LeBow) is shlemiely enough...