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...play is a heap of incoherence. I would also single out the Prince of Morocco (Curt Anderson), Salerio (John Sedgwick), Nerissa (Meg Vaillancourt), and Jessica (Andrea LaSonde) for their well-executed performances. Launcelot Gobbo (Kevin Grumbach) did some unexpectedly successful things with some of Shakespeare's least inspired clown material, and his father (Peter Frisch) served him as an effective foil. Lorenzo (Danny Snow) managed to project a kind of cortesia Castiglione would have recognized. The only serious miscasting was the Duke of Venice himself (David Garcia) who lacked the eloquence to make his magnanimity seem better than a sham...
Through his juggling connections, Haber got a job as a juggling clown at an amusement park the summer before his freshman year...
Haber says his stint as a clown was his first "real experience" in juggling. He performed with two other jugglers, six shows a day, six days a week...
...Clown Prince. Casey started playing summer ball in Kansas City-K.C. was the source of his nickname-to support himself while attending dental college. But he was a southpaw, Casey explained later, and the equipment of the period was geared for righthanded drillers. Like such other leftist talents as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandy Koufax, Stengel adjusted. He signed on at $75 a month with the Kankakee, Ill., club and immediately became the clown prince of the bush leagues. Running to his position, the outfielder liked to practice sliding into home plate en route. "There was a lunatic asylum...
...rewrote the rules of man aging: he platooned his infielders, played by hunches, gambled on percentages. The Yankees suffered 72 injuries that year. They also won the pennant and World Series. The clown abruptly became "the Old Perfesser...