Word: enchantresses
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...anyone who has grown up male in the United States, driving an automobile transcends the rather rudimentary coordination one needs to stay in lane on highways. For reasons that swell Freudian literature, driving becomes a symbolic, even a sexual act. (Praised be the soft enchantress who likes the way we shift...
...Enchantress, but the lust of Satan's flesh...
Burnished Swords. Indeed, the only point at which Rex catches fire is a scene in which father and daughter (Penny Fuller) match warring wills like burnished swords. Fuller also plays Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn. As Anne, Fuller is a mettlesome enchantress who makes Henry's furious desire under standable. Singing in a warmly melodious baritone, Williamson enhances his tenderest moments in the show...
...peculiarly ironic. Here is a man who has an almost physical revulsion from all that society stands for, yet he is desperately in love with a girl who is society's darling. Célimène (Diana Rigg) is a widow of 20, a teasing, witchy, worldly enchantress. She gossips maliciously, she lies, she keeps two other lovers on the string. Yet until she finally rejects him, the puritan Alceste is in tormented thrall to this pagan Lilith...
Producer-Director Hal Prince, who demands mere perfection from a cast, gets very nearly that here. He has curbed Gingold's hammy excesses, lit up the sexy enchantress in Johns, and released in Cariou a presence, as well as a voice, that marks him for the top of the U.S. musical stage. Ardent admirers of Prince's Company and Follies may be startled and a trifle dismayed that he has devoted his formidable skill and inventive energy to what is basically a bittersweet operetta. But then, the only predictable thing about Hal Prince is that whatever he does...