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...four singers and 82 minutes to recapture the gritty spirit of Mérimée's novella? Peter Brook undertook the radical surgery three years ago in Paris. Berg's Wozzeck set in a 19th century insane asylum? That was Hans Neugebauer and Achim Freyer's novel perspective in a Cologne production revived last season. Maxim Gorky's Summer Folk implausibly wed to a selection of Gershwin songs and renamed Hang On to Me? Peter Sellars performed the ceremony in May at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis...
...erratic, often jarring orchestral performance, under Frederick Q. Freyer's direction, communicates Weill's epic music with clarity and vigor. Freyer's lyrical arrangement faithfully retains the social gest of the original. Occasionally, he loses control of his players' enthusiasm, and the music overwhelms the singers. Yet the vitality of his conducting and exuberance of the music itself, leaping across the stage to strike the audience's nervous system, adds integrity to the production where the set failed...
...also seems unnecessary--because Sellon has little to apologize for when it comes to the musical part of the show. Sellon is a fine lyricist and many of his songs contain nice twists and subtle turns of phrase. Even better is Frederick O. Freyer's music, which is the finest part of the show Freyer has managed to pull off a 40s sound which is not simply copied. You might hear a little Basic one in a while, and some of the harmonies might remind you a bit of some of the classics from that period--but Freyer uses these...
Frederick Freyer never misses a cue as the piano player at the Kit Kat Club. His presence on stage during the more serious scenes back at the boardinghouse is bewildering, however, especially since he also doubles as the insidious Ernst Ludwig, a Nazi goon, and often exits stage left as the pianist, only to enter immediately stage right, as Ludwig...
...Stirrups. Indian painters in Cuzco showed Christ's bleeding heart pierced by Indian arrows, and the Three Wise Men journeying to Bethlehem on llama-back. In gold-encrusted paintings from the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, recently exhibited at the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Christ is depicted on the Cross with native Peruvian flowers banked at his feet, while the Child Virgin is portrayed holding a distaff, vividly recalling Mama Oclla, the Inca deity who, according to legend, taught the Indians how to spin...