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ZORBA. Producer-Director Hal Prince has turned out a non-Jewish version of Fiddler on the Roof. But this time Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the hero's role rather than being possessed by it, and Maria Karnilova never quite provides the mixture of girlish coquetry and faded carnality that the role of Bouboulina requires. The music sounds as if it is being piped in by Muzak; the lyrics are insipid, the dances are any old folk...
ZORBA. Producer-Director Hal Prince has turned out a non-Jewish version of Fiddler on the Roof. But this time Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the hero's role rather than being possessed by it, and Maria Karnilova never quite provides the mixture of girlish coquetry and faded carnality that the role of Bouboulina requires. The music sounds as if it is being piped in by Muzak, the lyrics are insipid, the dances are any old folk...
...reflect the intellectual nuances of the Kazantzakis novel, Zorba the Greek, the musical is infinitely inferior, point for point, to the 1964 Michael Cacoyannis film, with its powerful evocation of fierce joys and harsh sorrows against the spare Greek landscape. Anthony Quinn was possessed by the title role; Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the part like a rented room. Quinn had the sexual assurance of a goat; Bernardi talks up lust as if he were a barker for a snake-oil remedy. Zorba has to be-as Quinn was and Bernardi is not-a grizzled Dionysian pagan, a piece...
Nixon, Milton Young, Republican incumbent, won re-election over Herschel Lashkowitz in a lackluster race...
Luckily Prince has found the right actor to voice the spectrum of human emotions so crucial to Zorba. His name is Herschel Bernardi and I can't get him out of my mind. For Zorba, every minute of life must be lived as if death were around the corner, with no time to be wasted. Raising his eyes to the Crete sky, spreading open his arms, and kicking out his feet as if he could surely ascend to heaven if he worked enough at it, Bernardi makes not only a stunning Zorba but a majestic spectacle of human will...