Word: enough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite occasional wildness, hard-throwing reliever Keyte held B.C. to a single run in the last two and one-third innings. That was an adequate enough performance, as the Harvard offense sprayed Boston College pitches around Soldiers Field like so many pieces of frying popcorn...
...LOEB PRODUCTION of Candide may not be the best of all possible Candides, but it is very good and in this imperfect world, that is usually enough...
...book written before the dawn of the Broadway musical lends itself to adaptation into a Broadway musical, Voltaire's Candide does. It is funny enough in its own right that one only needs to set music to the text to get a slick and enjoyable musical comedy. In many instances, Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler do exactly that, quoting whole passages straight out of the book. Bernstein's music--which the orchestra performs excellently--parodies opera, Bach, the conventions of Broadway musicals, and a lot in between. The whole satiric pastiche is topped off with lyrics that are faithful...
About the only thing that could ruin Candide would be slow pacing. Given enough time to dwell on the frothiness of the whole thing, many audiences might become wearied with the obvious foolishness of Dr. Pangloss and company. To guard against such a reaction, Director George Hamlin has turned Candide into a three-ring circus that moves at the speed of light. The set sprawls the width of the theater, using the balconies over the theater entrance and a walkway that cuts through the 30 or 40 seats in the pit. Actors appear from every door in the theater, sometimes...
...Maximillian, Candide's foppish foster brother, but he becomes more convincing with each episode until he shines in a wonderful passage with the Governor in which he gets sold as a female slave only to have his coconuts exposed at the last minute. Hayes sometimes fails to sing loudly enough, but his acting eventually makes up for that...