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...Wright plays the Chorus, John Gower, with a comic subtlety which is a delightful change from Elizabethan bombastics. Like the rest of the cast he spares the audience inexpert attempts at British English, a wise decision on the part of the director Kathy Placzek. Wright's part is an open trap to overacting, but he makes no attempt to steal attention from the action of the play. Diana Chase plays a superbly wicked Dionyza, which she accents with a very low neckline and feline movements. It is probably unfair to list the attributes of the principals, for this cast shares...
Directed by GOWER CHAMPION...
Peddling is work, sometimes hard work, and anyone attending Irene ought to be forewarned that much of it is about as playful as a Detroit assembly line. The assembly-line touch might even be called the essence of Gower Champion. As a director, he is the relentless master of mindless mechanics. He has never paid more than trifling attention to the meaning of a show. A virtually meaningless show like Irene is an irresistible challenge to him since he can drive the cast and dancers into assembling the pieces, faster and faster and faster. As a result, his direction, like...
...vulnerability of a girl's first love. Morse is an enormously personable stage presence, and he knows it. The trouble is that he gratuitously does twice what he has perfectly done once. He is a child of excess and needs a sterner and more containing director than Gower Champion...
...ride into Boston, because Sugar, even though it's been designed and packaged by a roster of Broadway heavies, is about as weak as this present transition. All involved--Peter Stone on book, Jule Styne on Music. Bob Merrill on lyrics, sets by Jo Mielziner, direction and choreography by Gower Champion--appear to have approached the assignment with the kind of enthusiasm that should be reserved only for musicalizations of Night of the Living Dead. Lyrically, the libretto must have been written with a rhyming dictionary in one hand and a Funk and Wagnalls in the other. Musically, the score...