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...Schmidt’s “The Fantasticks,” is largely a paint-by-numbers show. Directors Laura S. Hirschberg ’09 and Sean P. Bala ’09 chose to stage the play as it has usually been performed since its off-Broadway opening in 1960, striving for the same wistful tone and minimal set that straddle the boundary between the homemade and the “fantastical.” The show, which was produced by Rory M. Sullivan ’09, tells the story of two neighbors who feign...
...song ("You said you loved me / Or were you just being kind? / Or am I losing my mind?"). But Clark's rendition makes it clear Sally is so desperate and deluded, she is near madness; she is losing her mind. Clark lifted this Follies into the stratosphere of indelible Broadway productions. I can testify to that: after catching a Saturday matinee I marched directly to the box office and bought two tickets for the evening show. Rapture struck twice...
...Have Another Cup of Coffee," and lots of impudent attitude, which the revival nicely preserved under John Rando's direction. An expert cast led by Encores! stalwarts Judy Kaye and Walter Bobbie found the fun of bankrupt millionaires and amiably venal cops improbably involved in putting on a Broadway show. It was swell, though I might have preferred Encores! to present Hart and Berlin's next revue, As Thousands Cheer, with a richer score (including "Easter Parade" and "Heat Wave") and a sassier tone. Maybe Encores! skipped it because the show was vibrantly revived in 1998 by the New York...
...dirges ("Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime"), war anthems (Berlin's, of course) and songs of social significance. But glamour drove the old Ziegfeld revues, and glamour at Encores! is not skin but star quality. The star here is Kristen Chenoweth, that petite package of pyrotechnics who has wowed Broadway in Wicked and, this season, in The Apple Tree (a production that originated at Encores! two years ago). Whether flaunting her coloratura or radiating that elfin sensuousness, she's sensaysh...
...show that gathers its material from 50 years of Broadway revues is open to debates about what was left out. And since the Q. in Critic is for Quibble, here are a few. Berlin, with those six (terrific) songs, and Harold Rome, with three (lesser) ones, might be overrepresented in a show meant to be panoramic. The two sketches are amusing, and give the stars a chance to mewl and mug becomingly; but, from the same book (The Greatest Revue Sketches) that Viertel & Co. dipped into, I'd have chosen George S. Kaufman's brief, devastating "If Men Played Cards...