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...Falstaff. Inside every fat man there is supposed to be a thin man screaming to get free. Inside Orson Welles there is just another fat man. At the age of 51, the onetime enfant terrible of cinema has finally allowed the swollen stranger in him to break loose. The stranger's name is Falstaff...
...Parts 1 and 2, in which the character of Sir John Falstaff, "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts," dominates the stage. Welles is probably the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat for the role. Immense, waddling, jowly, pantomiming with a great theatrical strawberry nose and crafty, porcine eyes, he takes command of scenes less with spoken English than with body English. In whatever he does Welles is never en tirely bad-or entirely excellent. In this film there flickers the glitter of authentic genius, along with great stony stretches...
...enough lawyers, linguists and wine merchants are on hand to keep the case going well into March, bring court costs alone to around $280,000. Before long, the judges may well be ready to settle the when-is-sherry-sherry question on the expert and well-aged testimony of Falstaff, who defined "a good Sherris-sack" as a brew that "ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive...
...VERDI: FALSTAFF (3 LPs; Columbia). Verdi's last opera, an ebullient celebration of love and life, was written when he was 79, and Leonard Bernstein has captured all of its beauty and range. The entire cast exploits the comic possibilities in the music, but Regina Resnik as Dame Quickly and Graziella Sciutti as Nanetta stand out-along with the redoubtable Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who, as Falstaff, makes his voice convey everything from arrogance to cravenness to humiliation. At times the mirth seems about to explode in all directions, but Bernstein's firm hand directing the Vienna Philharmonic gathers...
AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE THEATER, Stratford, Conn. Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar and Falstaff (Henry IV, Part 2) as counterpoint to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. Through Sept...