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...characters, Rabbit and Wheeler, act out the play's central conflict Wheeler, as his name implies, is a wheeler-dealer in the movie industry, and Rabbit has come to "the city of angels" in search of money and power. They scheme to collaborate on a movie which will "drive people right off the deep end and leave them blithering in the aisles" But they never achieve this ultimate motion picture of the city seeps into their skin and devours them alive...
Such a play requires more than just competence from actors The cast includes the best acting talent of the A.R.T., and it is not enough. The cast lacks both inspiration and courage, neither of which are provided by director David Wheeler. Two seasons ago. Wheeler directed a truly inspired True West (also by Shepard) at the Hasty Pudding, since then, he must have run out of steam He too readily exchanges the anguish which is central to Angel City for cheap and easy humor The audience is entertained, but never moved...
...production often sorely lacking in energy, some members of the cast try valiantly to liven things up Thomas Derrah, who played a puckish Tom Sawyer in the A R T's recent production of Big River, shows his versatility in the role of Wheeler His pockets overflow with ballpoint pens, he wears trousers hiked up around his crotch, glasses and a bow tie, and he carries a golf club all of which makes him resemble an anxious pre med before an exam more than a movie producer In the second act, Derrah's creepy qualities intensity as he sprouts fangs...
SECOND TEAM: F. Dave Williams Yale, sen,; F. Dan Allen, Brown, fresh F. Gary Cullen, Cornell, jun; F. Dave Connors, Harvard, sen.; F. Rob Wheeler, Harvard, sen.; D. Cliff Abech; Princeton, soph.; D. Mike Schaefer, Cornell, soph.; G. Paul Totorella, Yale, sen.; G. John Franzosa, Brown...
Half a minute later, Harvard nearly struck back, when Falcone found senior Rob Wheeler at the right post. "I thought, Jeez, if I can get my stick on this it's a goal," Wheeler said. "I got pretty good wood on it. He somehow made the save...