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...most publicized shows are the ones that nearly all out-of-town visitors want to see. the impossible-ticket myth has spread all over the U.S.) Tickets were available not only for long-running shows (Camelot, Mary, Mary) but also for new productions: Ross, A Shot in the Dark, Gideon, A Man for All Seasons, etc. It was not even necessary to hang around the box office for some purple-faced commuter to show up with salable tickets and the heartrending story that his wife had missed the train from New Canaan...
...Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, enlarges on the Biblical tale with more humor than eloquence, more religious speculation than exaltation, but the acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and glory...
...Mean Spear. When Paddy Chayefsky's Gideon was on the road in Philadelphia, Fredric March, who plays God, graciously requested that Douglas Campbell (Gideon) be given equal billing. The gesture was just. Campbell's is a star performance throughout, a convincing portrait of an Old Testament bumpkin who holds earthy colloquy with his Maker ("I can't love you, God, you're too vast a concept") and shivers under the impact of the divine power that enables him to command his tribe and save his people. Campbell, 39, also built the foundations of his career...
...Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, explores the relationship of God and man in a compelling, if not exalted, drama. Fredric March and Douglas Campbell brilliantly light up Chayefsky's firmament...
...Broadway Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky. A lustrous morality play about the simple farmer chosen by the Lord to lead the Israelites to victory over the Midianites. Fredric March as the Lord and Douglas Campbell as Gideon are, to put it mildly, magnificent. Chayefsky's vocabulary spirals off into rhetoric and his reasoning is sometimes flawed, but his theme is enduring-man's relationship...