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...plot comes straight out of an "I Love Lucy" episode. Lucy and Ethel go Elizabethan in the wily duo of Mrs. Alice Ford (Martha Warren) and Mrs. Meg Page (Allison Charney). Scheming against their ungainly admirer. Sir John Falstaff (William O. Beeman). The two women inevitably draw their husbands into the affair. Accused of infidelity by her jealous husband (David Williams). Mrs. Ford belts out a couple of high C's in literally one of the highest points in the opera...
Traditionally the Lowell House Opera invites professional singers from outside of Harvard to participate in their annual production. In the leading role of Mrs. Ford. Martha Warren displays a talent that more than substantiates her credentials. A recent semi-finalist in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera auditions. Warren has incredible stamina and poise. But what makes her performance unique is the tremendous amount of personality she brings to her character...
...Harrison Ford goes Frantic in Roman Polanski' s homage to Hitchcock. -- Kathleen Turner niftily anchors Switching Channels...
...Richard Walker (Harrison Ford and Betty Buckley), innocent, middle-class Americans, arrive jet-lagged and grungy in Paris early one morning, their mood unimproved when the taxi bringing them into the city from the airport develops a flat tire. All they can think about is bed and breakfast before they plunge into the medical convention that he is about to address. Oh, yes, and hot showers. Walker is taking his and trying to hear something his wife is saying over the rush of water when she disappears. Just disappears...
...hotel people and the police are all Gallic shrugs. Perhaps Madame has a lover? The American embassy is all bureaucracy. See that line over there, buddy? Well, go stand in it, and then we'll listen to your troubles. Walker, whose characterization Ford balances nicely between exasperation and desperation, is all thumbs. He does not speak the language, he never gets to sleep, eat or change his suit, and he keeps stumbling into situations in which he needs all the coordination and smarts that regular habits help to ensure. Hitch at least used to give Cary Grant and James Stewart...