Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moved back after a divorce that distanced him from his four children. Running the family florist business with a brother now that his father had been immobilized by illness. Looking happy and even jubilant tonight. Good singer, John ny, best in class. Not a bad actor. Played George Gibbs in the senior production of Our Town and still thinks of Grover's Corners when, from soaring Pine Hill across the river, he looks down on the tilted strew of toy buildings that are Kittanning...
...Where Are You Tonight," the "new" Dylan strikes his most attractive pose. The song captures that wild feeling of America at night, the America of Thomas Wolfe and Jack Kerouac. The lean background vocals, snappy rhythm and fine lyrics about two-bit criminals and their women ("Her father emphasized, you got to be more than street-wise") work together to make "Where Are You Tonight?" perhaps the most polished song Dylan has written since Tangled up in Blue...
...story line follows a young man, Mio, the son of an anarchist executed for a murder he did not commit. Fate brings him to New York, seeking to clear his father's name. Who does he fall in love with but the sweet young sister of a witness to the murder who refuses to speak out and is being strong-armed by the actual killer, lately out of the joint...
...Choate comes close to saving the show with an electric performance as Mio, the embittered young man tormented by the shadow of his father's humiliation. Choate rather easily dominates every scene he is in. He has an easy well-modulated voice and the timing and movement of an experienced actor. He is at his best taunting a classically idiotic Irish cop (James P. Horan) in a near-melee in the first act, or raging against the Judge who presided over his father's trial in a scene that crackles with emotion...
...actors and let the play slip away, you can watch some good talent hard at work. Robert Owezarek, who movingly played Anton in Failing last fall, largely recreated that role here, this time with a Jewish accent rather than a Hungarian one. As Esdras, the aging, protective father, he rages and coddles, all with a sense of powerlessness and imminent death. David Eddy returns to the Harvard stage as Carr, Milo's chum, and the only regret about his part is that it is too short. William Leach brings a kind of manic power and an eloquent voice to Judge...