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...child, no one would have predicted that Professor of English Robert S. Brustein would become one of the most eminent figures in the theater world...
...musical was adapted by ART artistic director Robert Brustein from a children's story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. But the adaptation is neither sharp nor captivating-instead it relies heavily on slapstick gags and cheap one-line jokes to drag its way through a simple story. Singer's morality tale here is not expanded or satirized; rather, it is presented and left to lie like cold chicken soup, sans matzoh balls, vegetables or even chicken. The adaptation fails to challenge the audience in the slightest, and is not even successful in its irreverence. Much of 'Shlemiel' simply insults both...
...orchestra pulls off the true to their style Klezmer songs and wildly outrageous parodies of Yiddish familiars with grace and ease. Particularly spectacular is Composer Mlotek's "Geography Song," a parody of a 1947 folk song by Aaron Lebedeff. Here Mlotek and musical adapter Hankus Wetsky are successful where Brustein fails; they masterfully adapt the familiar melodies and lyrical stories which are so much a part of Yiddish culture into vibrant and enjoyable pieces which augment and respectfully recognize their source. The music of "Shlemiel the First" is as thoughtful as it is hilarious; it is fun, but not hollow...
...fences. Not just the play, but the ones between director of the Loeb Drama Center and professor of English Robert Brustein and playwright August Wilson, whose conflict over color-blind casting and the theater was played out on a national stage...
...struck by the qualities of his character, and the smoothness of his writing," said Robert S. Brustein, director of the Loeb Drama Center. "He was destined to be an important playwright...