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...executive. In Ross, he maintains, "you have a dreamer and a visionary, a plunger and schemer"; in Nicholas "a guy who's small and risk averse. You could hardly get a yes out of him. He loved the status quo." While Ross is generally described as a charmer, Nicholas "is not a likable guy," says a director. Some executives and directors had the impression Nicholas was in over his head, knew it and had grown afraid...
...CARMELA! Pan-European charmer Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) is a cabaret artiste caught in the crossfire of the Spanish Civil War. Director Carlos Saura makes all the obvious points, but Maura makes them shine like new truths...
...Wives, like Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, deals with the themes of romantic intrigue and thwarted intentions. The play tells the comic story of a wealthy old suitor, Arnolphe (Jona Sacks) whose efforts to marry the lovely young Agnes (Carolyn Rendell) are bested by Horace (Chris Javornik), the handsome charmer whom Agnes adores. Unfortunately, Horace does not know that he and Arnolphe share a common interest, and he unwittingly confides in his wealthy opponent. Arnolphe, stubborn in tradition and beliefs, sequesters Agnes and attempts to sabotage Horace's plans...
...minute charmer vibrates with foot-stomping energy and thoroughly hummable music by Stephen Flaherty. As usually happens in myths and allegories, however, the characters do not emerge with great clarity or particularity in Lynn Ahrens' book and lyrics. Some audiences may find political problems with the show's vision of black natives as happy, rhythmic, superstitious and simple. But at its best, this fable is truly fabulous...
...FANTASTICKS. Three decades after it opened off-Broadway (for 12,000-plus performances and still counting), the boy-meets-girl charmer starts a national tour at Wolf Trap, just outside Washington, in a spruced-up version starring Robert Goulet...