Word: alswang
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...this, with handsome Ralph Alswang sets and superb Motley costumes, has a fine storybook air, but no vibration as story. Nor is showing this hopeless family man for a few years among his family very rewarding. Too much slighted is the George who was not always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton...
...patchwork-quilt of a musical. Parts of it are excellent--for instance, George Balanchine's choreography, and the lyrics and music of Jack Lawrence and Don Walker. But at the same time the show has some of the most bideous costumes and scenery, by Saul Bolasni and Ralph Alswang respectively, that have ever been seen in these parts; William Roos' book is only occasionally funny and seldom original; and many of the performances are below par. The result is a show that has its bright spots but is often tiresome...
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