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...smoother, and more controlled than anything we could remember the HRO emitting before. Difficult transitions--full orchestra dropping away to unveil a quartet of woodwinds--passed in untroubled succession. Massive string sections--nine violas and eleven cellos--luxuriated in lush tone. A fine solo on the English horn by Barbara Cohen introduced the second movement. And Swoboda provided the histrionics on the podium that are among the reasons for going to a good symphony orchestra...
...Thomas More, played by Emlyn Williams. There is fresh comedy in the conformist cry for nonconformity as raised by A Thousand Clowns. As a nonworking anti-square, Jason Robards Jr. is supported by a prize cast of plodballs. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is baited with laughs, and Barbara Bel Geddes hooks every one, as this fun-fest nears the 700-performance mark...
Life is pleasant enough in the village. They wear good costumes there, thanks to Barbara Channing, and the two musicians play a good guitar. Paul Sapounakis' set, an ingenious arrangement of vaguely Iberian arches, would (if they were closer to me) surround the play well enough--even though it has nothing to do with Lorca's instructions. Still, it is only in the last act, when Eric Regener's music throws dread, mystery, and the Moon out on stage, that Blood Wedding really begins...
...Tonight: Robert Goulet, Barbara...
...faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of groupthink toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...