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Aside from Woo, the cast suffers from a lack of guidance from director Kenneth Sanek. The worst victims--and offenders--are Terry Knickerbocker as Fredrik Egerman and Denice Villa Peter as his virginal young wife Anne. Knickerbocker has a rich, mellow speaking voice, but little conception of how to use it. His singing, while pleasant, is much too weak for the role, and his characterization of Egerman, a stuffy middle-aged lawyer, is too low-keyed. Since in any production Egerman is likely to be overshadowed by the glamorous figure of his mistress Desiree, underplaying the role invites disaster. Knickerbocker...
During the last of many curtain calls last weekend, I watched Sam Levine bend down to kiss Eva Le Gallienne's hand. As he did, she leaned forward and lightly kissed his forehead--a gesture which seemed inadvertently to sum up all the grace and charm of Burry Fredrik and Sally Sear's production of The Royal Family. At the bottom of the first page of the Playbill it says, "The Kennedy Center--Xerox Corporation American Bicentennial Production." I still don't know what that means, but if it means that we have 1976 to thank for bringing this show...
...friend, Lennart Kollberg, is nearly as important to the series as Beck. Kollberg is a paunchy, garrulous perfectionist. Like Holmes and Hercule Poirot, he deeply believes that "chance has no part in police work"-but his hunches tend to be inspired. These two are supported by a sturdy cast: Fredrik Melander, who has a prodigious memory and spends much of his day in the bathroom; Gunvald Larsson, an impetuous dropout from what he calls "upper-class riffraff;" Einar Rönn, who writes execrable official reports; Per Mänsonn, who is chief in Malmö, where trouble often occurs...
...such ancient techniques as canons, fuguettos and Greek chorus. What makes it all work, aside from Producer-Director Harold Prince's stagecraft, is Sondheim's uncanny ability to put a softly dimpled melody at the service of a sharp-chinned lyric. As when the middle-aged widower Fredrik Egerman ponders the seemingly insurmountable virginity of his young second wife...
...church in Seattle. After several months of prayer, Mjorud began speaking in tongues himself, started trying it out on interested Lutherans during his mission trips. Mjorud, who is also a devotee of faith healing, was warned several times by the Evangelism Commission, and only the intervention of A.L.C. President Fredrik Schiotz saved him from dismissal last year. Although fired as a traveling evangelist, Mjorud is still free to accept a call by any congregation that wants him, and he intends to keep on speaking as the Spirit directs. "It's my calling," he says, "and there are many open...