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...Colette, one of the first great musicals by the Lerner and Lowe team that brought Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960), and swept nine academy awards in 1958 for the film version. We even see Louis Jourdan, who first achieved popular fame as Gaston, return as Honore, the role immortalized by Maurice Chevalier...
...matters little that Jourdan has starred in; films as diverse as Madame Bavary, Can-Can, and the Silver Bears, played everyone from a BBC Dracula to a sinister would-be James Bond nemesis in Octopussy. For anyone who has ever seen the MGM movie classic Gigi, Louis Jourdan is Gaston, the inveterate playboy with interminable ennui. To fixate momentarily on his Gallic features summons up visions of Jourdan-Gaston beside the original Honore (Maurice Chevalier) forever repeating. "It's a bore...
...hard to look at Jourdan now and imagine that much has really changed. Grandfather and counselor d'amour to Gaston, and narrator of the show, Honore calls himself "old enough to know my faults, but young enough to still enjoy them." It is only half-true of Jourdan. With jet black hair and the perfect aristocratic amble, he looks young enough to enjoy almost anything...anything, that is, but his role as Honore. He sings "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore" as though he believes the lines even less than we. That he appears to lip-sync this...
...week," the Baron responds. How to resist a gentleman's advances without offending, Maria asks the real Baron, presumably her equal. Responds Baron Manners: "Say, 'Not so impetuous, Baron. Not before supper, later.'" Left equally confused by the presents of the class which he has so suddenly affected, Gaston asks for romantic counsel as well. Once again, Baron Manners: "Tell her, 'You are the one to whom I belong body and soul,' and remember 'After supper, it is easier to discuss with a woman the dessert...
...Huntington Company, the production sports a professional polish. Delivering a baritone as rich as his impeccable surroundings, Rex Hays makes a commanding Baron, carrying himself like a true mythical aristocrat and offering entertainment fit for any peer. Even to, Hays cannot rival the performance of Mitchell Greenberg as Gaston, who makes even simple, stereotypical conquest seem lovable if not admirable. Breathing too little personality into her stereotype-fashional character, Donalyn Petrucci offers neither the melodious delivery of Hays nor the charisma of Gaston...