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seems tomeBy Robert PoliakWELLS STREET SATIRE: Second City's latest Through the Eyes of the Immates, is gently amusing, but thin. I can remember a half-dozen sketches during the Barbara Harris, William Alton, Severn Darden era that evoked and deserved critical praise as satire of a high and original order. But anemia has been setting in during the last year or so and the quality of the writing has declined.With the return of Paul Sills the direction on the little stage has improved although the quintet of actors still engages in confusing cross-dialogue that bespeaks either lack of rehearsal or am I - don’t - care - whether - you - hear -it-or-not attitude. What the entrepreneurs may consider an alluring informality can be simply a pain in the neck to the audience. At least to this mem-ber of it.Of the current Second City material by far the best item is Aufstieg Und Fall Der Alte Stadt,” a sharp andPoliakvery funny parody of the W e i 1-Brecht Mahoganny” with the scene shifted to Old Town. William Mathieu, ■ ,the company’s veteran com-poser-pianist, has caught the quintessence of Weil’s musical style with devilishers of Richard Strauss aresuing on behalf of his sonFranz to keep that otherson, WielandWagner, from staging eitherElectra* or Salome,Franz hates Wieland’s presentations. . . . .lonesco'asensitive little sketch about a couple of callow adolescents flirting timidly in acleverness and the troupe iatest^ Hunger and Thirst, sings and mines as if it is a sell_out at the Come-had been trained in the ber- prancaiSef but the audi-liner Lnsembie. ence riots almost every, night. Ioesco loves it and tlsewnere you will finu a gaySf “This will keep themawake even if they are accustomed jo sleep in thetheatre. • . . .Peter Stone Catholic chapel; a funny and ancj Art guchwald have beenfair 1 y penetrating ten rrun- hjre(j by Feuer and Martinutes about Jewish social dis- t0 wrjte a libretto for atinctions in the suburbs; a musical based on Games raucous number about the People pl . b ^ Ericdraft with, for a change, no Berne # .Recommend-references toYiet Nam; and ecj. woncjerful Matissethe usual and by now some- ghow at the Art Institutewhat stale jibes at televi- recorcj 0f a man who8ion commercials and advertising slogans.ODDS AND ENDS: Varie-worked until the day he died and left his mark on all mod-. . ern painting and sculpture,tys great lea . a story The product of Matisse is anabout the financial tribula- eternally vivid expression of tiuns and peregrinations^of j0y jhrougm color and line, Cassius Clay: Yflu Cassius leading the viewer to thinkhas a lean and hungry look. that tj,ere may be some hope .....Richard Rodgers and for us after an. ... “APeter Ustinov will collabor- piaywright :should be pro-ate on a new film version of tected in his off hours,weeks■The Private Life of Henry and years and not be exiled, *VIII.* .... Author Neil wrote critic Walter Kerr re-Simon is the Midas of Broad- cently about the f a i 1 i n g way since his royalties from Tennessee Williams. Why?Since The Glass Menagerie* the wavering line of Williams has been dowruHis•The Odd Couple,* “Barefoot in the Park and *Sweet Charity,* plus two more plays sitll rolling in stock companies, run at the rate of $20,000 a week. Amazing what a man and a typewriter can do. ... .The publish-— - ----—■—■----- ---rkre5312 S. NO 7-9STARTS FRIDi
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Hyde Park Herald
Hyde Park, Illinois, US
Wed, Mar 30, 1966
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