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...there is nice work by lots of capable actors. Among Mayer's previous collaborators, Woodward Wickham is an unmagical magician and Andrea Portago a plebian Lady, but Francis Gitter has a compelling presence, rivetingly sad eyes, and moments of gaunt, tranquil beauty as Aladdin's mother, and Vincent Canzoneri is a wittily forthright Scholar Wu. As the Grand Wazir, David Prum reveals a precious comic style, a sublimely funny blend of ham and deadpan, and Jenny Cornuelle, a most impudently regal actress, is a flashing, mesmerizing Sultan. Maybe best of all is the Princess of Bonnie Zimmering, who has never...
Pope Brock is very good as an effete young noble, and Vince Canzoneri's Maxime is a perfect picture of a vengeful, slightly insane and decaying aristocrat. Timothy Hall, except for an implausible tendency to twitch uncontrollably, plays Bitos with compassion and sense...
...communication of Mayer through the text through the sound and movement on his stage to the audience watching the play. What counts here is not fidelity to convention, but rightness, and the Summer Players are, to my mind, right 99 per cent of the time. When Demetrius (Vincent Canzoneri) tossed "And, by the way, let us recount our dreams" to the audience upon exiting, an audible explosion of surprised laughter and applause arose as we realized we'd never known the line could be read like that and, of course, it's the right way to read the line...
VINCENT J. CANZONERI...
There was throughout such splendid coordination between James Burt's stage direction and Vincent Canzoneri's work with the traditionally polished orchestra that any attempt to resolve the two and pick at each must be regarded as undialectic and moreover silly. The old criticism that Sullivan's score is a bit churchy is true but in this instance besides the point. The orchestra has a certain lightness, a brassiness of tone which deletes much of what is sentimental in the music...