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James Harper and Jeremy Geidt deserve credit for getting more fun out of the boozing Stephano and Trinculo than the roles really contain. But it is Joe Morton's Caliban for which this production will be best remembered...
Freedman has changed only small details in his staging. But there have been a good many alterations in the casting, often for the better. Jeremy Geidt's toping Toby and Jacqueline Coslow's merry Maria are superior to their 1978 counterparts, and Reno Roop's sappy Sir Andrew is just as funny as his predecessor's. Robert Stattel has been upgraded from Antonio to Duke Orsino, and acquits himself admirably if without the three-dimensionality that Lawrence Guittard gave the role...
Scott is why they are there, and Jeremy Geidt, Michael Gross, Max Wright and Stephen Rowe convey that with rare skill and sensitivity. Unfortunately, Hill, while decent as a saint, lacks the lightning that fires blind fealty in other...
...masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Professor," "the Reverend" and "Mammy" (Jeremy Geidt), who are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura. Made up to look like Dr. Fu Manchu and with an accent to match, Alvin Epstein plays this role with hysterical finesse. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah Lil" (Stephanie Cotsirilos). She falls for Bill, and redeeming social values ensue...
...termagants, drunks and, finally, the haughty, unamused Pluto (Jerome Dempsey), god of the underworld. It seems that Shakespeare sits on the throne of honor as the No. 1 dramatist in Hades. (In Aristophanes' original it is Aeschylus.) A battle royal of quotations ensues between Shakespeare (Jeremy Geidt) and Shaw (Anthony Holland). The chorus of jurors votes against Shaw on the grounds that he is a dry, cerebral rationalist while Shakespeare is the archpoet 3 of the human soul...