Good morning, all! Buddy Holly's singing in the background, I finished reading last night's posts, and I'm all alone here this morning. Of course, it's 6:15 am, so that probably explains it.
DR WFO, your tribute to your late mother was quite beautiful, and I wish you all the best in getting through today.
DRPannni, I too enjoyed WONDERFALLS; I looked up the leading lady, Miss Dhavernas, on the IMDB and discovered I'd known her father Sebastian Dhavernas when I first started working at Drama Book Shop in 1979! Very handsome fellow. Someday I'll post all the working actors I knew when they were students/waiters/caterers, etc.
Comic plays that make me laugh out loud; well I go back a ways:
1. THE COUNTRY WIFE: I love the rhythms and phrases of Restoration comic dialogue
2. SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: I saw Sheridan's THE RIVALS around 4 months ago and laughed myself silly at everything Mrs Malaprop uttered
3. IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
4, 5 & 6. A FLEA IN HER EAR, THE LADY FROM MAXIM'S & HOTEL PARADISO: Georges Feydeau was the Neil Simon of Paris around 1905
7 & 8. HAY FEVER & BLITHE SPIRIT: The menage a trois in BLITHE SPIRIT is much funnier than the menage in DESIGN FOR LIVING, maybe because one of them is dead, but PRIVATE LIVES is also a hoot
9. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: sweet old ladies and murder, not to mention bad plastic surgery and Teddy Roosevelt
10 & 11. LOOT & WHAT THE BUTLER SAW: Joe Orton's combination of classic comic dialogue and contemporary violence is often imitated but never equalled, and ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE ain't bad either
12. THE AMERICAN DREAM & THE SANDBOX: mean humor, and very funny, but there's a lot of humor in VIRGINIA WOOLF, and a lot of it comes from HAY FEVER
13. LEND ME A TENOR: good classic farce given a modern slant
14. NOISES OFF: everyone in the theatre has a horrifying backstage story to amuse and terrify and Michael Frayn seems to have collected a lot of them here