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From: Xerxes
Confirmed: monkees
Date: 06 Feb 2010
Time: 07:35:01 -0500
Remote Name: 92.22.121.98
First Night: Micky was absolutely brilliant! It is such a shame the part is so small! He's a great ensemble player, of course and really made Wilbur fit in with the show as a whole. He's playing him (for reasons best known to himself) as an elderly man (stooped posture, shambling walk) and the characterisation has a lot of the stuff we know him for (pulling faces, comic voice) but also the constant blinking of Stan Laurel and I'm sure he's drawn on other American comedians, I don't recognise. He has his hair all stuck out and wild and with the 'Archie Rice' style costume, he looks every inch the joke shop proprieter and comwdy father he is supposed to be.