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...Quincy House Dramatic Club, currently preparing Romeo and Juliet, will use the Quincy dining hall without charge, Mark F. Clark '62, the play producer, reported...
...brilliant blend of boisterousness and truculence. Since then, he has been a wild Teddy Boy in The Lily White Boys, a suitably complex Oedipus in a BBC production of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, and a robust and lyric Romeo in a Caedmon recording of Romeo and Juliet (with Claire Bloom), scheduled for U.S. release soon. But throughout Britain he is best known as Arthur Seaton, hero of the film version of Novelist Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, an elaborately praised production that will give the U.S. its first full look at Albert Finney...
Color is most useful to variety shows and musicals, as was demonstrated by Remember How Great, a melodious catchall in which everything from Juliet Prowse to the Hermes Pan Dancers looked like pigments of the imagination. It seems least important to panel shows (Concentration had a special technical block, with its enormous Scoreboard photographed in black and white so that viewers could read the pattern). But even in this category, color provided an occasional extra touch, such as the garishness of the goods displayed by The Price Is Right and the geriatric authenticity of a little old lady with blue...
Last week's performance admirably underlined all the sharp and sudden contrasts: the swirling turbulence of the strings, portraying tumult and strife, giving way to the stately chorus of trombones marking the prince's intervention; the remarkably effective muted chanting of the chorus in "Juliet's Funeral Procession," followed after "Juliet's Awakening" by a shattering explosion of the orchestra in flamboyantly strutting rhythms. Throughout, Conductor Wallenstein managed to catch the remarkable range of inflections that Berlioz alone seemed to hear in an orchestra...
Despite the success of last week's performance, Romeo and Juliet is not likely to become a concert hall favorite because of its length (88 minutes) and its great demands on performers. But for concertgoers lucky enough to encounter the right combination of artists on the right night, the Berlioz work will always speak eloquently, as Toscanini put it, of "things one cannot understand or imagine...