Word: glorias
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...Bridegroom seems slightly foppish in the part and his stage presence is at times lacking. John Heffernan is perhaps the best actor on the stage in the extremely difficult part as the lover of the Bride. As his wife, Roz Faber likewise shows superb comprehension of her role. Gloria DePiero plays a comely Bride, but she is guilty of extreme overacting at times. And Olympia Dukakis shows some sign of talent as the servant woman who acts almost as a classical chorus. However her Brookline accent detracts from her performance. Edward Zang gives a nice and largely unaffected performance...
...effective contrast to the old judge, played by the director. Ree Christiansen, the fierce sister, screws her icy nerves up so tightly that it is nearly distracting wondering whether she will break. The rest of the fairly large cast, especially Roz Faber (in both of her roles) and Gloria DePiero, all add to the production's success...
Into each of these lives plummets a fulsome quota of barracks-room and smoking-car bawdry and a fairly steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...
...observes in his notes, by using only the single word of the title. But he met it squarely in setting his mass to an English text, and he emerges triumphant. Except for an excessive diminuendo on "invisible," every word is perfectly set forth in the music, especially in the Gloria and the Credo, while each of the various parts is uniquely treated, the mass remains a unified and very beautiful whole...
Born. To Donald O'Connor, 32, cinema song-and-dance man (Call Me Madam), and sometime TV Starlet Gloria Noble O'Connor, 24: a daughter, their first child (his second); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Alicia. Weight...