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While most of the cast is eating dinner, Keshishian and stage mangager Julia K. Moskin '89 work from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. with the principles: Catherine (Julie J. Glucksman '87), Heathcliff (Michael K. Allio '86), and narrator Nelly Dean (Amy F. Brenneman...
...Jullie Glucksman as David's girlfriend and Cyrus Sanai as Brandon also turn in entertaining and spirited performances. Glucksman excels in her role as David's flirtatious fiance, providing most of the comedy in the play as she effectively counterbalances Rupert's seriousness. Sanai's performance is also outstanding although it suffers somewhat for his failure to give any sense of Brandon's sinking confidence in light of Rupert's mounting suspicious. In all the case deserves congratulations for simultaneously providing quality entertainment and effectively conveying the theme of an extremely difficult script...
While the supporting players are all competent, with Jim Caudle especially shining as Dr. Rank, it is Julie Glucksman's Nora and Brad Dalton's Torvald who make the play work. Dalton effectively portrays Torvald's flawed character, almost a caricature of intolerance and insensitivity. Showing no understanding of human imperfection or feelings, he constructs a dream world of perfection around his doll-wife Nora and cannot understand her violating it, even to save his life. In lesser hands the role could come off as a mere foil for Nora to rebel against. It is to Dalton's credit that...
...EVENING, HOWEVER, belongs to freshman Julie Glucksman who charms and coruscates as Nora. Beautiful enough to carry off lines like "it's a good thing everything looks good on me" and delightful enough to make us understand Torvald's obsession. Glucksman also manages to sustain a fine balance between her character's outward uncertainty and inner strength. Her refusal to play the cliched "strong woman" through the first two acts makes Nora's third act awakening all the more shattering. Instead of emphasizing the potentially didactic element of the script. Glucksman convincingly brings out the deeper, more rivelling dilemma...
...While Glucksman will only be a consultant to the new company, he will not walk away empty-handed from the firm that has been his life. When his 4% share of Lehman is sold to American Express, he stands to make an estimated $13 million...