Word: aronson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taken as a theater piece, J.B. has an often stunning theatricality, notably in the first half. The spoken verse is sometimes sharp and eloquent. The circus setting, in Boris Aronson's graphically somber set, enhances both the Biblical immensities and the modern-day horror. The bearers of ill tidings to J.B.-liquored-up soldiers, flashbulb photographers, raincoated police-are peculiarly scarifying. Moreover, J.B.'s story is varied, heightened, salted, glossed by the exchanges between the Zuss of Raymond Massey and-the play's top performance-the Nickles of Christopher Plummer...
Hingle (as J.B.), Raymond Massey as Mr. Zuss (the balloon salesman who plays God), Nan Martin as J.B.'s wife, and Christopher Plummer as Nickels (the popcorn vendor who portrays Satan) are all excellent. Boris Aronson's set is magnificent; Miss Ballard's costumes catch the proper blend of the gaudy and grotesque; David Amram's music and Tharon Musser's lighting lend almost surrealistic overtones to the drama. And Kazan ringmasters his menagerie with the genius which has earned him his reputation...
...find himself in mannerism rather than substance, in the mocking wink rather than the observing eye. Despite Katharine Cornell's regal efforts as Pharaoh's sister, or trumpet-voiced Anthony Quayle's as Moses, the Egypt of The Firstborn is mummified. Only Boris Aronson's sets evoke something once living and still large...
...Radcliffe graduate student, Miss Brooke Aronson, of New York, was assaulted last evening as she entered her dormitory. A few minutes afterward, police arrested a six-foot man whom she identified as her assailant...
...Montana, conscientious Republican Governor J. (for John) Hugo Aronson vanquished Montana's attorney general, Democrat Arnold Olsen, 39, who spent the campaign flogging the state's three standard whipping boys-Anaconda Mining Co., light and power companies, oilmen...