The veteran David Garrison imparts the Major-General, the father of a brood of capering lovelies, including Mabel, with a dithery pomposity.
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And Brian — especially in Urie's by now predictable performance — is a tired burlesque of the dithery, narcissistic gay man who turns everything he touches into silly drama.
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A Word With Before he snagged the role of Chidi, the dithery moral philosopher of "The Good Place," William Jackson Harper had been acting Off Broadway for a decade.
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Wearing a Mondrian-print, Yves Saint Laurent-style dress and, by her own delighted admission, stoned to the gills, Ms. Ryan's Sandra exudes a sensuous, dithery confidence that is silly, pretentious and absolutely commanding.
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Trewitt (a delicious Harriet Harris), a dithery Connecticut brothel owner, discovers the infant Jim on her doorstep, her eyes don't blaze with maternal warmth until she learns that a fat legacy may be part of this foundling's future.
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It is hard to imagine this assortment of people, who include a gay, anti-abortion political columnist-turned screenwriter (Roe Hartrampf), as well as Lyssa's conservative senator father (a graciously pompous Richard Poe) and his latest, sweetly dithery wife (Deborah Rush, divine as always), making nice over brunch.
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First seen last June as part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks series, "Plano" has deepened since then, sharpening its focus on the sisters: Anne (Crystal Finn), a dithery professor whose husband, John (Cesar J. Rosado), seems to be with her for the green card; Genevieve (Miriam Silverman), a sardonic sculptor more successful than her regular-guy husband, Steve (Ryan King); and Isabel (Susannah Flood), the sickly, saintly youngest, who seems O.K. (but is she really?) with being married to God.
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". Sally Vincent, interviewing Dean for The Guardian, surmised: "it nagged away at [Dean] for ages until she thought, hell, she owed it to herself, and started telling the producers she'd been thinking about trying new things. In those days, they didn't let you off for the odd panto or anything. It was full-time work. She remembers being dithery and apologetic about it, but her feet were itchy and, though she never really wanted to close the door behind her, she talked about going until one day, much to her consternation, [the producers] said all right then, off you go, lots of luck.
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