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...Ball. Living in the round is not exactly new. Cave dwellers, Kurds, birds, bees, Bedouins, medieval Irish monks, Indians, Eskimos, Zulus, lighthouse keepers and leprechauns, to name a few, have tried it. But it took the genius of R. Buckminster Fuller, now 81, whose brilliantly engineered structures were used as radar domes on the arctic DEW line after World War II, to demonstrate conclusively that for the material used they are the strongest and most efficient way to enclose space. Moreover, they cover maximum volume with minimum surface area. Ergo, it takes less energy to heat or cool a spherical...
...Sable's charmingly deluding scheme, which becomes, of course, Fuller's wonderfully beguiling play, actor and crook are one. Posing as a family friend who is at home in England for the first time since he was seven, Sable goes to the country estate of Lady Beatrice Harlston to steal some of her plentiful jewels. Take the goods and run was the direction given to Sable by Harry Mercer, his surly subordinate, and Brenda, his impatient moll. But Sable overstays his visit, tempted to steal not the jewels but the suspicious and susceptible heart of the Lady's daughter Julia...
Just as in a successful crime scheme, it is the well-wrought details that enable the perpetrator to get away cleanly, so in Softly Stealing it is the lyrics to the 19 songs that provide the great escape. Fuller's words can be alternately funny, as they are in "Taxing Deductions," the theme song of the "almost clever criminologist," Inspector Quentin Thornblade, who tries to think like the great Sable in an effort to outwit his criminal mind, or haunting as in "The Runaways," Brenda's plea to Sable to return home, or romantic as in "A Perfect Stranger...
Much of the credit for this achievement should go to Fuller who, by directing his sophisticated, well-constructed piece with the accent on style and what he terms "the very, very small things," like inflection and timing, has put the final polish on the play himself. But a big portion of the applause should also go to Gerald Moshell, the Kirkland House music tutor and Fuller's partner in this crime, who has composed a score so suited to the lyrics in mood and meter that, as Fuller himself has said, "the words and music seem to have something...
...Fuller, who a week ago stepped in to replace an injured actor, plays Sable with the strong tenor and swashbuckling panache which fans of this now author and director in addition to Gilbert and Sullivan-trained actor have come to love and expect...