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Like the play as a whole, the acting has moments, but too few. Well-known Cambridge storyteller Brother Blue, a great choice to play narrator John Gower, appeals well at first. Yet each time he comes on stage he affects the same position, demeanor, voice and gestures until his idiosyncrasies become grating and tiresome. Pericles, played by Ben Halley Jr. mimics a stiff operatic James Earl Jones, a stunning figure with fine diction, but his manner is too rigidly classical and neither dramatic nor human. Sandra Shipley as Thaisa plays her role with quiet understanding and control. With only...
...Susan Gower New York City
...explication of the Salic Law (somewhat abridged), Paul Craig correctly avoids turning his Archbishop into a comic Polonius (one mistake in the Olivier film), but is too bland later doubling as Captain Gower. Pirie Macdonald '54 ably doubles as the conspiring Scroop and the Scottish officer Jamy. And Robert Stattel is a commendably solid Duke of Exeter...
...opening-night party, the mood was subdued. But after a time, a certain kind of Broadway tradition, of which Gower Champion was a proud part, took hold. Some of the party goers got up and gave him a tribute he would surely have approved. They danced...
...DIED. Gower Champion, 59, leading Broadway musical director and choreographer; of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, a rare malignancy of the blood; in New York City (see THEATER...