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...their first entrance many of the characters in The Rivals are interesting, but Sheridan just cannot sustain that interest for two hours. He tried by adding a secondary romance between Faulkland (Andrew Brooks) and Lydia's cousin, Julia (Maeve Kinkead). Brooks is especially good in his portrayal of the contrite and contrary Faulkland, running first hot, then tepid, then cold, then hot again...
There's the Captain's father, Sir Anthony Absolute, a gouty tyrant who would make his son marry a one-eyed witch if the marriage portion were large enough. There's Jack's plegmatic friend, Faulkland, devoted to the beautiful Julia but always devising schemes to test her love. And there's Mrs. Malaprop, possessing a strong pretension for elegant loquation but always misconcerting her vocabularly...
...roaring the next. As his son, the Captain, Richard Clarke views the behavior of Sir Anthony and Mrs. Malaprop with amused tolerance and woos Lydia with well-bred ardor. And Paul Schmidt, who has also appeared on the Loeb main stage, skillfully plays an affable yet irritatingly suspicious Faulkland...
Captain Jack; and the impeccable Faulkland whose troubled wooing of Julia Melville reaches the happiest matrimonial culminations...
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