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...Jesus--A Passion Play for Cambridge opens at the Agassiz Theater, playing through July 19, and 22-26. Further information at the Agassiz Theater, 10 Garden Street 2-6 p.m., phone...
That was well over ten years ago, and now things aren't so simple. The Senators (with or without Ted Williams) no longer mean too much to me; friends are harder to come by; and, as I learned at Agassiz this week, Damn Yankees is not necessarily a form of instant ecstasy...
Still, musicals--even those have aged poorly, as Yankees has--can provide a lot of theatrical lightning. All they need to work is plenty of love, speed and style. In the Agassiz Yankees, the love and speed are there; it's the lack of style that often sends this enormously pleasant show into the doldrums...
...talented individuals and springy dances, Agassiz' Damn Yankees can never throw off the burden of a book in which things happen so dully and a director who does so little to slick it all up. Go to Agassiz expecting spasmodic thrills, but plan to find you ecstasy after the show is over...
Similarly, Susan Larson's Josephine, her third consecutive lead at Agassiz is easily her best. To her singing voice, which is still her major asset, she has added an ease in her movements about the stage and in her transitions of mood which had not quite developed in her previous roles. Though she is perhaps not as physically suited for the role of a genteel captain's daughter as she was for the authoritarian figure of Princess Ida, the element of absurdity added by the contrast of her size to that of Jeff Davies is more than worth this minor...