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Around these mismatched romancers, writer-directors John Musker and Ron Clements have assembled enough entertaining creatures to stock a theme park. Sebastian the crab (voiced by Samuel E. Wright) is a Caribbean Jiminy Cricket, fussing avuncularly over Ariel but bound to break into calypso croon. Louis the French chef (Rene...
The syllabus sounds promising, but the lectures often cannot live up to their billings. Certainly, Professor Coles' literary expertise is impressive and his timely anecdotes are entertaining. He is a fluent, engaging speaker, completely at ease talking about his favorite authors and their works. Problems arise, however, as soon as...
DESPITE Frayn's basically witty dialogue and the realistic two-story Brent summer home designed by director John Claflin, most of Act I drags. Act III, due to no fault of the actors, is also a let-down. Act II, however, fraught with fast-paced action and funny mime sequences...
Unfortunately, playwright Christopher Durang seems convinced that the audience will not understand his message unless it is beaten into them, and his script frequently employs a baseball bat where a fly-swatter would do. The result is a production which, while entertaining, is pretentious and overblown.
"We had the votes there, but everyone was in a hurry to get out," Sullivan said. "They were entertaining the Armenians."