Word: bridegrooms
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...music, story, staging and orchestral playing. The plot concerns a young man on his wedding night, whose troubles are due more to ignorance than lack of cooperation by his bride. The cast was excellent: Elaine Freybler was a coy but charming bride, Robert Corbright was a properly backward bridegroom, and Ronald Gerbrands added spice as the tutor. This is a piece that shouldn't be missed...
...accepted. In the Virgin Islands last week, Charles Van Doren, 31, answered one more question. His response ("I do") won him 1) Geraldine, 2) a tax saving of around $20,000, 3) a mother-in-law who cherishes him as "the answer to every mother's prayer." Bridegroom Van Doren then flashed the family code phrase to his joyful parents in Manhattan: "Worried today...
...marriage. But perhaps because of its very inevitability, Mr. Alonso has refused to write such a scene, and as a result Juan just never comes to life enough to make his story appear the tragedy it is supposed to be. By sheer force of personality, the jilted bridegroom dominates the play, thus damaging both its perspective and meaning...
...energy is director John Hallowell's unwillingness to force the pace of the play and to transcend the limits imposed by the static scene divisions. And Eugene Pell, who plays Don Juan, is a little too listless throughout the production. In contrast, the performance of David Lange as the bridegroom is quite satisfactory, though he might try speaking somewhat more loudly. And both Louise Bell, as the near-bride, and Philip McCoy, as an old man, show frequent flashes of real acting ability. These people can all profit from Workshop experience, but the basic material of actors is present...
...does so by marrying a Mexican. The hard, bright manner of Elaine Stritch in the role of the elder daughter provided the only relief throughout an evening otherwise drowned in sentimental goo. As for the performances of Patricia Bosworth, the second Muldoon offspring, and Gerald Sarracini, the Mexican bridegroom, they are workmanlike but nothing more...