Word: feydeau
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...eccentric, this staging of Timon is a vast improvement over what preceded it: in the first season a murky, static staging of The Crucible, a labored, lumpen version of a Feydeau bedroom farce and a rendition of Ibsen's The Master Builder about which even Randall, who directed, can't find anything good to say; in the much improved second season, an intelligent, revisionist reading of The Seagull, a solid (and Tony-nominated) Saint Joan and the George Abbott comedy Three Men on a Horse, with Randall supremely skillful if utterly miscast as a husband...
...resonance and nuance. Some spectators ache for him, others squirm in discomfort, but few can immediately lose themselves in the character and story line. Randall, who played comedy with depth and complexity on his TV series Love, Sidney, is hammy onstage, if less excruciatingly so here than in a Feydeau farce last season...
Last season Tony Randall brought his National Actors Theater to Broadway with an overwrought version of The Crucible, an unfunny slog through Feydeau's farce A Little Hotel on the Side and a stupefyingly overacted rendition of The Master Builder. At season's end, executive producer Manny Kladitis said, "We know there were problems, but give us a chance. A company has to walk before...
...newlyweds with no cute eccentricities, no clashing political views, no comical disparities in social background. Their problems are the little ones that occur when even compatible people are tossed into the same house together for the first time. Just getting out of the apartment in the morning is a Feydeau farce: she rushes back to open the window (the dog needs air), he rushes back to close it (a burglar might...
Other recent limited runs featured Martin Sheen in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Rob Lowe and Tony Randall in a Feydeau farce (both shows from Randall's new National Actors Theater), Jane Alexander in The Visit and, most opulently, Joan Collins, whose Private Lives ended last week. Says Harvey Sabinson, executive director of the League of American Theaters and Producers: "None of us who have been around a long time can recall a moment when so many major Hollywood stars came to Broadway...