Word: delle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is the essential theme of Lampost Reunion by Louis La Russo II, and it is a first play of some consequence. The reunion is in a bar. The hero is Fred Santoro (Gabriel Dell), whose career and fame resemble Frank Sinatra's. He and his henchman (George Pollock) drift into a haunt that Santoro shared with a gang of cronies (mostly Hoboken, N.J., Italian-Americans) some 20 years before...
...cast could not be better, and Gabriel Dell as Fred is a spellbinder who might even win the respect of "Old Blue Eyes...
...what's really amazing is how people seem to be looking at the Bicentennial that way. The North End has sprouted an Italian Bicentennial Committee that is currently sponsoring free Commedia Dell' Arte productions outdoors. How many Italians could there have been in this country in 1776? But then, why not? Certainly no one would be in favor of restricting Bicentennial activities to those whose ancestors actually killed one or more Redcoats. After all, there's nothing more American than ethnicity, and no doubt there are Irish Bicentennial exhibits as well as the ones in the North End and Chinatown...
...Commedia dell Pinkie is a bit of Mather House mime and madness that is a heart-rending illustration of the power of concrete courtyards and labyrinthine corridors of warp men's minds and sense of humor. Mather House Dining Room Friday and Saturday nights...
...stick tale about a flirtatious town clown, his enemies and his inamorata (complete with mistaken identities, a fake death and an implausibly happy ending) that defies compression as well as credibility. Massine's scenario is too highly stylized to allow for many low jinks; the result is commedia dell'arte without any comedy, Punch-and-Judy minus the punch. The occasional moments of raffish humor are all provided by quick-legged Gary Chryst, 24, who leaps, whirls, jigs and flutters through the title role like a madcap superball. It is difficult to believe that Massine himself was ever...