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...sociologist's delight, now giving way to careless love with the arrival of George Reinholt and Jacquie Courtney...
...Susan never really stops being Julie: "I find myself dreaming the way she would." Of Doug, no doubt. Of course, the reason may be that Bill Hayes, who plays Doug, is right there beside Susan. A year ago, they were married in real life, much to the writers' delight. "It was a natural for us," says Falken-Smith, who promptly heated up the love scenes. In fact, it was the script that brought the couple together. Emotionally exhausted from a messy divorce that left him to care for five teen age children, Bill arrived on Days in 1970 looking...
...mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell was a child's delight, full of games and good spirits and tall tales. As the Pied Piper of Cairn Voel, his country retreat on the Cornwall coast, he used to lead his young followers on hunts for the ingredients of a special home brew-a concoction of stagnant water, mold, dead leaves, old grass and whatever other unsavories could be dredged up at the moment...
...Emperor of Atlantis resembles another expressionist work, Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, but it goes beyond Weill's elegant cynicism. The final chorale, describing death as part of life's "delight and woe," is sung to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, while the orchestra counters with a cabaret tune of incredibly sweet pathos. From this juxtaposition emerges a requiem for a civilization literally going up in smoke, but the hymn's chords reassert the promise of redemptive life...
...seems with that great American institution, the musical-A Chorus Line notwithstanding. That is what makes this cabaret selection of Leonard Bernstein's theater songs - or rather those tossed out of such shows as Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story - a bittersweet delight. Less than topnotch though they are, the songs brim with confidence and fun. So does the patter, which harks back to the days when sophistication meant wryness and a wise crack was communication. The cast communicates by singing and dancing, and at least two of them - Patricia Elliott and Janie Sell - should...