Word: jourdain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spencer Jourdain at 157 and Karl Kludt at 130 both lack experience, but both are exceptionally hard workers who should benefit from Lee's coaching. Tom Oxnard at 137 placed in the New England Scholastics last year, but he too lacks experience. Bill Hurley, the lone heavyweight, is a former Tabor Academy wrestler...
...Monsieur Jourdain...
...Moliere's chief contribution here was the creation of the leading character, Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy but penny-pinching middle class tradesman who will nevertheless squander any amount of money to acquire the social graces and intellectual refinement that characterize people of "quality." Jourdain will live forever as the man who was overcome with astonished glee upon learning that what he had been speaking for forty years was prose. But he is also the man who puts on his gown in order to hear music better; and who, on being asked whether he understands the Latin that has just been...
...nobleman Dorante, Sorrell Booke as the Music Master, Robert Brustein as the Dancing Master and Michael Lewis as the Philosopher. As the Fencing Master, Thomas Hill should speak with more elegance. Evelyn Ward is attractive as the maidservant Nicole, but seems a little too cultured; and Gail Garnett, as Jourdain's daughter Lucille, is not cultured enough and speaks too softly--maybe these two should have swapped roles. Dee Victor, as Jourdain's shrewd and shrewish wife, needs a great deal more force...
Molière's joking is broad, but his character sense is broad-bottomed; somehow, though M. Jourdain's head swims with wild delusions, his clumsy feet stay on the ground. And the Comédie Franchise's Louis Seigner keeps him that way, makes him seem human while remaining idiotic, and so childish as to be likable. Actor Seigner's would-be gentleman becomes a solid center round which revolve a succession of sideshows...