Tagged: J. B. Kaufman

A WHALE OF A CLIMAX!

All these sounds, special effects and the animation, itself, coalesce into a sequence of pulse-pounding excitement! Beginning rather comically as smoke furls out the floating leviathan’s spout hole, it quickly escalates into overwhelmingly desperate terror. Smoke billows out the whale’s...

SHIPS CROSSING IN THE NIGHT

Post show inside Stromboli’s wagon chowing down on “Italian” cuisine – i.e. sausage, wine, olives, cheese and garlic – the puppetmaster tallies his take, Pinocchio now sidelined, observing. Furious at finding a slug amongst the gold, the puppeteer has a...

A SILLY SONG (AND DANCE!)

The yodeling intro precedes the song proper. Happy sings the first verse of clever meaningless lyrics followed by a group chorus during which he tap-dances (though silently). The chorus is a model of self-deprecation: “Ho-hum, the tune is dumb; the...