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Instead of the traditional musical about college life, this year the Radcliffe "Drumbeats and Song" will feature a kickline of cossacks in a musical adaptation of Gogol's Inspector General, on March...
...Council's main concerns this year will be the success of the Drum-beats-and-Song production, a musical adaptation of Gogol's The Government Inspector, Miss Proger announced...
However, Mr. Kelley has tried very few of the sight gags that are needed to make up for the paucity of jokes in the script, and nobody in his cast can create laughs out of thin air. John Wolfson is scarcely what Gogol had in mind for the chief conniver, but his cold authority works very well instead of the greasy glibness the author intended. Mr. Wolfson knows how to command a stage, and his performance is one of the evening's best. As the other gambler, Ronald Coralian does a straight part well...
...ingenious plotting of its predecessor, but for half its length it is refreshingly funny. After that, it becomes apparent that neither the reluctant hero, nor the hesitant heroine, nor the crowd of secondary suitors, nor the meddling friend, nor the coarse matchmaker, have been conceived with much imagination. Gogol portrays the Russian bourgeoisie, with only slight exaggeration and stereotyping, in all its pomposity, stupidity, and avarice. After The Marriage one can understand the October Revolution...
...L.H.D.S. people do much toward brightening the mediocrity. (The costumes by Peggy Decker and Judith Kuznets are especially sumptuous and picturesque.) In the leading role, William Graham makes a dignified and interesting figure out of Gogol's pompous cold. Karen Christiani as the object of his apprehensions is rather more wooden than the role requires, but ingenuous and pretty. Many of Alison Keith's lines ring hollow, but her matchmaker is a lively old rip, and she's funny, so what the hell. John Wolfson is occasionally funny as the friend who actually makes the match, but familiarity lessens...