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...Among the ladies, Jan Gough does especially well as as Frau Anna Kopecka: her presence is grand although some of her readings could be sharpened in urgency. She and Nancy McGill carry most of the songs, and both deliver the remarkable Hanns Eisler tunes in fine, direct style. David Dunton scores a minor comic triumph as Bullinger, the harried SS functionary, while Claudio Buchwald should be marked as an actor who makes a great deal of some potentially unrewarding bits...
Miss Tolentino can sing, too, though a couple of songs--including "Everything's Coming Up Roses," unfortunately--fall detectably out of her range. More important, she can act. David Dunton (rumored to be her husband) can act as well, and makes Herbie a somewhat more complex character than one is used to encountering in a musical. As Gypsy (nee Louise), Phyllis Ward overcomes a piece of miscasting nicely, and as her sister June, Ferrell Page is fine. Also keep your eyes out for a broad the name of Shannon Scarry--but if you don't, it's all right...
...nations. In the U.S., 700,000 people work at R & D for industry v. 187,000 in next-most-active Japan. U.S. corporations allot $21 billion to research, six times what the Common Market spends. Americans can also be terrifyingly ingenious. Ford, creating Ford Europe, linked engineering centers at Dunton, England, and Cologne to Detroit by telephone cable in order that designers abroad could use the Dearborn computer...
...with fast and clever gimmicks. Chumley has mastered an idiot grin, and cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
...play with so little subtlety--as far as I'm concerned so little truth--perhaps the best the minor actors can do is make their characters interesting. But David Dunton, as Sir Hugo Slate, is only conventionally stuffy. And Johanna Madden, as Mary Dean, is more cheaply attractive, more easily written off, than necessary...