Granted, the plot follows a singular theme and, once completed, can and does create a full length and ridiculous drama. The show makes the sketch comedy of many of today’s late night shows appear pedestrian by comparison. The current play follows in the footsteps of Kaye, Benny Hill, the Three Stooges and a host of other characters who do anything for a laugh, stepping on rakes that slam into their heads or interacting in nonsensical ways with other actors as a part of a skit. My late father laughed so hard at the pratfalls and theater-of-the-absurd dialogue of Danny Kaye movies like “The Court Jester” (1955) that I can still picture him gasping for air as he wiped away the tears slaloming down his face, where they joined the muddy sneaker stains, the dirty paw prints and the soda spills on a white carpet that chronicled our active lives. My family has numerous qualities that we have shared from one generation to the next. Indeed, it’s almost challenging to follow the simple murder mystery plot amid gales of laughter, much of it coming from me. In case you haven’t heard about it and can’t figure it out from the title, “The Play That Goes Wrong” is an absurd show where everything goes so wrong - the props, the actors, the staging, the lighting and the music. My wife and I recently went to this farcical show, where my wife informed me that she, the couple attending the performance with us, and just about everyone around us could tell how much I enjoyed the experience. 04.14.What is it about “The Play That Goes Wrong” that is just so right for so many people, including me?.04.15.07 - HIGHWAYMEN (Sunday Acrostic).04.26.07 - Gouging, Glyphs, Graphs and Glitches.04.28.07 - IDENTITY THEFT, a Return to the Stone Age.04.29.07 - SPINNING - the Sunday Acrostic.04.30.07 - Band, Bend, Bind, Bond, Bund & Brando!.This puzzle is full of color and is not afraid to make wordplay with its definitions to elicit a groan from the academia - it knows we’re out here! BOFFO (33A Like a showstopper)! This is the best non-theme puzzle of this entire long wet month of April! Authors, painters, singers and songwriters, an actress, police, an automaker, a poet laureate, etc. Our geographical attention is brought to the Middle East, Mexico, Europe, England, France, Japan, China, the USA (hello Tennessee!) and more. Great small fill with clever cuing, TATE, ESTD, ATE, BARS, BROS, MACE, BOBS, VOLS, FUEL. Then there are such wonderful references as YUPPIEFLU (12D Chronic fatigue syndrome, informally), INLINEFOR (13D Due), TEENCROWD (14D Mall rats, typically), AMANALONE (52A 1969 Frank Sinatra album featuring Rod McKuen songs), LOSTSTEAM (1A Sputtered), GUMDROP (48A _ Pass ), TOPSPIN (20A Tennis technique), THEBUSHES ( 29D Subject of 2004’s best seller “American Dynasty”) and POLICECAR (55A Prowler avoided by prowlers). Across the center of the grid is THEATEROF THEABSURD (29a with 37-Across, mid 20th-century avant-garde movement) dissected by a HARDACTTOFOLLOW (34A Showstopper) crossed in the center with BROTHEL (23D Toulouse-Lautrec hangout), flanked by ARTTHERAPY ( 27D Psychiatric discipline pioneered by Margaret Naumburg) and MORTALFOES (9D They fight to the finish).
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