Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...have but two qualms preventing me from rushing out this minute to purchase one: 1) its degree of accuracy seems ill-fated to be minimal; 2) its "tic-tic-tic" would probably sound closer to "Dick-talk, Dick-talk, Dick-talk...
Jill Clayburgh is lovely as the minister's young wife Judith. She is particularly skilful in the long scene in which she is first left alone with Dick. Her gradual progression from flustered fear to the threshold of adultery is a delight to watch. (After the performance I caught, an unfortunote accident obliged her to leave the cast; I hope she will be back in harness again shortly...
...Dick himself comes across with all the brio one could ask for, thanks to David Selby. He is properly imprudent, a maelstrom of activity; and he is young and indecently handsome, as befits the romantic hero of a melodrama. Shaw has carefully built up suspense for Dick's first entrance, Heis talked about at some length; and the Dudgeon family, all dressed in black mourning outfits, are waiting for the conventional reading-of-the-will episode. Dick finally bounds in irreverently, wearing light blue and brown-the embodiment of defiance...
...court-martial scene is, in fact, by far the choicest in the play, and it affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...
...minor members of the Dudgeon family (notably James Cromwell as Dick's nasal and stupid brother Christy), the officer and soldiers, and the Indians all lend welcome color to the production. And where Shaw has called for the offstage sound of the Dead March from Handel's Saul, Ritchard has brought a real costumed band of piccolos, brass and drums right on stage. And he has appended a musical epilogue to Shaw's wildly cheering townspeople. After a performance of "Yankee Doodle," a group launches into William Billings' patriotic hymn "Chester"-a most fitting choice, for Billings was a Bostonian...