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...stroke; in Stamford, Conn. Beginning as a chorus girl in Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta in 1910, she later moved on to the dramatic stage in both New York and London. Among her notable roles: Portia in The Merchant of Venice, George Bernard Shaw's Candida and Ruth, the jealous wife, in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit...
...theater does not survive on its masterpieces but between them. Much the same is true of Shaw. His finest works, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House and Pygmalion, are rarely performed. Conversely, scarcely a season passes when the overestimated Saint Joan and Candida do not show up on some theater's docket. One could hardly underestimate The Devil's Disciple. Shaw himself thought that this 1897 play would eventually be considered a "threadbare popular melodrama...
McClusky has substantial theatre experience at Harvard. During this past year she had the title role in "Candida" and was in "Do It Yourself." Because of Harvard's repressive attitude towards combining performing arts with academics, turning creative endeavors into extracurricular activities, McClusky says, she hopes the Summer Ex-will help fill the void by providing an in-depth exposure through actual experience, a cram course for her fall auditions...
...blessings of repertory is the second chance. And the third chance. In May, two more big-name migratory workers, José Ferrer and Kate Reid, will come to the Shubert in Long Day's Journey into Night, to be followed by Eva Marie Saint and Fritz Weaver in Candida. Recalling that he was a charter member of earlier Greater Boston repertory companies?the Group 20 Players of Wellesley and the Cambridge Drama Festival?Weaver now jokes about writing a book called Festivals I Have Opened and Closed...
...contrast, the minor roles are handled with a much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess, Candida's father, has a laudable Cockney accent, and Mariani himself oozes idolatrous servility as the cleric Lexy. One of the most successful scenes in the production is the comic encounter between Prossy, Burgess and Marchbanks; in this run-in with characters who have the outlines of caricature, Marchbanks' own exaggerated...