Word: cyrano
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...CYRANO...
...arts are like family heirlooms, objects of lingering sentiment rather than pinnacles of aesthetic quality. Is the Mona Lisa a great painting, Les Sylphides a great ballet, or Clair de Lune a great piece of music? Not really, but they are all sentimental favorites. So it is with Cyrano de Bergerac. Both the play and its hero are more than a trifle silly. Yet this poet-duelist ham who boasts of besting 100 men in a single encounter has proved endearing...
...because Cyrano wears his soul with panache, a plume of the lyric spirit. He has the brio of a Don Juan, yet he dares not woo the beautiful and shallow Roxane for fear that his monstrous nose will render him ridiculously ugly in her eyes. And so he puts his words of eloquence, passion and longing at the service of the handsome and inarticulate dolt Christian, whom Roxane fancies. Cyrano also possesses some of the romantic chivalry of Don Quixote. He tilts at the crass, compromising windbags of this world. He has an in nate gallantry that makes his last...
...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...