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...other three decisions had to do with personnel, who were shrewdly and in some cases daringly chosen. The upshot is a gorgeous production that not only honors the past but also celebrates the present. It showcases the leading director of this era, Jerry Zaks, and the leading designer, Tony Walton, each in peak form. In Faith Prince it makes a new musical star of Ethel Merman-size potential...
Zaks' invaluable partner in achieving the nostalgic yet far from sepia look of the show was Walton, 57, a Briton who first earned a reputation for designing elegant period drawing rooms until he "tired of having a recognizable style not arising from the play itself." Now Walton likes to immerse himself in the world of a play: weeks after Guys and Dolls has opened, his living-room coffee table is still a shambles of books by and about Runyon and his times. He views research as "the treat part of the job, like going to school without the horrors...
...prolific Walton had seven shows on Broadway this season, three holdovers and four new works that opened within weeks of one another. But it was Guys and Dolls that brought his 13th Tony nomination (he has won two Tonys, along with an Oscar and an Emmy). Zaks, who had seen Walton's gallery art, suggested that he "just paint." The result was a succession of highly stylized street scenes, ablaze in sunset colors and pulsating blue-purples, yet aggressively two-dimensional and unreal. They convey the aura of city hubbub but never evoke a real place...
...Once Walton set the look for the show, costume designer William Ivey Long one-upped him with costumes in eye-aching stripes and plaids. They were a homage to, but far more extreme than, Alvin Colt's 1950 originals. Recalls Harvey Sabinson, a press agent on the original production who is now executive director of the League of American Theaters and Producers: "The original had clothing that was funny. These are costumes that are funny -- that's the difference in the level of reality between the two versions...
...Princeton--Simons (2), Thomson,Naylor, Magargee; Harvard--Winters (4), Berkery(2), Hansen (2), Walton, Downing. A:Princeton--Bristow; Harvard--Berkery, Hansen,Gaffney. S: Princeton--Saddic (2);Harvard--Leary (13).Isabel M. DedringDespite the efforts of SARAH DOWNING (9),CECI CLARK (5), and MARGOT McANANEY (19), theHarvard women's lacrosse team finished second inthe national championships yesterday...