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...Vienna, almost everyone who counted in music and the government had shown up for American Conductor Lorin Maazel's long-awaited first performance after taking over as director. Then, 35 minutes into Tannhauser, the lead tenor, East Germany's Reiner Goldberg, dropped his harp and mumbled, "My voice-I can't go on." He then disappeared into the wings, leaving a stunned Venus alone in her grotto...
...particular remember Thompson's career there as a crusading U.S. Attorney who won 300 political-corruption convictions. But "Mr. Clean" seemed a bit besmirched earlier this year, after disclosures that as Governor he had accepted expensive gifts from people doing business with the state. Stevenson has declined to harp on that affair. Such tempting distractions from his economic analyses, he feels, merely feed the media's "appetite for the sensational...
...First Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing them with harp and guitar accompaniment (original music courtesy of Joe Griffiths...
...Shakespeare's day) Edward Atienza is particularly laudable as a cleanly spoken Worcester, though he overacts the Welsh rebel Glendower (who has parody built into him and does not need any more superimposed). And Karen Stott gives pleasure through Lady Mortimer's prescribed song (with a real on-stage harp accompaniment by Sophie Gilmartin), though her Doll Tearsheet, as I indicated, belongs in the sequent play, which I wish Coe would offer us complete before long...
Though the feisty young company so far shows no signs of stumbling, corporate success has claimed two casualties: the Harp and Ely marriages. Says Bob of his separation from Lore last year: "It was an ego conflict. She wanted to do things one way; I wanted to do them another." Says Carole Ely: "I was running away from a marriage into a company...