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Branagh sets the play in a pre-World-War-I era, apparently for no reason other than novelty. As all Hamlet-o-philes know, the story begins with the sighting of King Hamlet's ghost by Horatio (Nicholas Ferrell), Marcellus (Jack Lemmon '47) and Barnardo (Ian McElhinney). Here Bismarck-style hats poised atop the head of an improbably cast Marcellus steal a scene intended to prepare the audience for the play's mood of ranting and revenge. But to the audience's consternation, the period so over-emphasized early on plays a minor or non-existent role later...
Fridays also always seemed to be the skeleton crew; unlike the other nights at the paper, the building was often a ghost town on Fridays...
...something deeper than I thought." And still is. He recently recorded The Last Word, a biblical satire in which he plays 40 characters ranging from Adam to Jesus, all using the J.F.K. voice. (He is seeking a distributor for the album.) "In a way, the album exorcised the ghost," he says before slipping once again into J.F.K.'s Boston-Irish patois. "I'm older, so it's probably how Kennedy would sound if he were still alive and smoking as many cigars as he used...
...season's most produced show. In Los Angeles and La Jolla, California, Star Trek veteran Patrick Stewart will be giving his acclaimed one-man rendition. A megaversion can be found--where else?--in New York City's Madison Square Garden, where Tony Randall plays Scrooge and Ben Vereen the Ghost of Christmas Present. San Francisco's venerable A.C.T. troupe is reviving its renowned 1976 production, absent since 1993. Says director of marketing Robert Sweibel: "It's the closest thing we have to a surefire hit, and it helps us underwrite more adventurous programming." Theater managers across the country could chime...
...representing the ghost of Halloweens past," he says, while chuckling...