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FOOLS
Comedy by Neil Simon
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific job as a schoolteacher
in the idyllic Russian hamlet of Kulyenchikov. When he arrives he finds
people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and
people who think if you milk a cow upside down you get more cream. |
Magical scenery at G.W.S. Auditorium
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Kulyenchikov,
it seems, has been cursed with chronic stupidity for 200 years. The desperate
townspeople have hired Leon to break the curse. They don’t tell him if
he stays more than 24 hours and fails to break the curse, he also becomes
stupid. Why doesn’t Leon leave? He has fallen in love with the beautiful
daughter of the town doctor, a girl so stupid that she has only recently
learned how to sit down. Of course, Leon breaks the curse and gets the
girl. "The protean Mr. Simon reveals a new and slightly different comic
facet: a bent for fairy-tale farce, yokel jocosity and rustic morality
play." --Christian Science Monitor. "The brightest, freshest, funniest,
wittiest, warmest and happiest to-do on Broadway in many a day." --CBS-TV. |
