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...truck carrying the shell had stopped at a toll booth when another truck slammed into its rear. While the shell was rendered useless, the riggings for the boat are intact and will be moved to another Stempfly being borrowed from Princeton...
...perpetually cut in and out, held and handled as integral parts of the action. Giant effigies from Lenny's pain-filled mind loom and dangle suddenly into the set: Dracula, Jackie Kennedy, Little Orphan Annie, Richard Nixon. Even Hitler (in five-foot boots) and Eichmann (in his glass booth) stalk in for a turn. Some of the visual hyperbole misfires-notably an inchoate anti-church mélange with Moses and Christ turning up unfortunately as a couple of naked men in plastic bottles...
...they say, "Meet me at the second phone booth from the left at Grand Central Station after the show"?that sort of thing...
...phone booth? [Laughter...
...than the original 1956 production. It might be argued that the change somewhat distorts O'Neill's intent. James (Robert Ryan) has toured the country for decades in a melodramatic potboiler, just as O'Neill's father did in The Count of Monte Cristo. Edwin Booth had once praised James' Othello, and he is haunted by the self-betrayal of his gifts. Ryan never quite suggests the commanding matinee-idol presence that Fredric March brought to the role...