Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Pam Berlin's adept direction, there are several inspired performances drawn from a solid cast. As Evie, Anya, Ilse, and Ginnie, Amanda Gari is impressively versatile; the rapid-fire appearance in Act II of all her characters--accomplished beautifully with skillful costume changes--is a virtual tour de force. Gari has a lovely voice, and comfortably takes command of the stage. She is balanced by Steve Kolzak, a fine Littlechap who possesses a type of intense, internal energy reminiscent of Anthony Newley's personal style. This quality is reflected in Kolzak's voice, effective whether he is singing...
...Fringe (the others: Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett). Three of the classic skits from that show are being reprised in Good Evening. There is the one-legged actor who, hopping across the floor kangaroo-fashion, applies to a producer for the role of Tarzan. Moore, who is also an adept pianist, parodies half a dozen great composers as they might have written the Colonel Bogey March, and Cook does his lugubriously farcical monologue about the miner who dreamed of becoming a judge. A good Good Evening, indeed, with the cheeriest imaginable company...
...after this mistake of a book, and as such he may well be a living monument to one of the major problems the Business School faces--its curriculum has a balance between theory and practice different from the rest of the university's and therefore its graduates, however adept at management, may not be so good at writing what should be imaginative sociological studies. Cohen as an MBA is out of his element when he tries to write even an analysis of his own environment...
Dobecker plunges into Anita's sumptuous web of sexual intrigue and petty corruptions. He plays at black magic, proves adept at dirty political infighting, and manages to enjoy an exhilarating lowlife, but in the end still convincingly comes through for the old-fashioned virtues of a straight marriage...
...recognition. The fine, wood-panelled dining-hall on Quincy Street cleans the surface of the scholar's conscience with the polish of good manners, decent bearings, and appropriate understatement of his discontent. Clean silver, cool sherbet, slivers of lime and fabric of seer-sucker, ladies and gentlemen slender and adept: they learn to be the managers of their own self-introspection and self-accusation. Should they become intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought not be given opportunity to distress them...