Word: cyrano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CYRANO. After weeks of brave resistance to The Crimson's devastating pan, the old boy is about to sheathe his sword, bench his nose and flee to the wilds of New York. Closing, that is, after Saturday's performance, 7:30 at the Colonial...
...Cyrano. Although The Crimson panned it, Christopher Plummer and so forth have courageously continued to perform this musical. With such intestinal fortitude and Rostand's play both in it, how bad could it be? 7:30 at the Colonial, until April...
...Cyrano. Anthony Burgess's clever script is reduced to a devil of a state, but a little of Rostand's panache slips in and out between the songs. Christopher Plummer is terrific. 7:30 at the Colonial...
...BETTER ADAPTATION might have relieved the play of some of its cumbersome artifices, especially the falling leaves in the final scene: the death bell peals, the leaves fall, Cyrano enters for the last time...
...musical maintains a satisfactory pace because of Kidd's eye for stage movement and because Christopher Plummer does Rostand's lines so well. It would be far, far better to see Plummer in the original play, but as Cyrano's opponents discover, in swordfights or musicals, you take what you're stuck with...