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...knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not the worst of the evening's sentimentalities is: "I charge you with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where he is to be knighted, swears that a barber's basin is a golden helmet, and with chivalric ardor vows devotion to a lusty serving-wench (Joan Diener), whom he views as his dream...
...Quixote-Cervantes, Richard Kiley is at least as good as Richard Burton in Camelot, and his singing voice is far better. He handles himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem...
...lunatic gaze, Sam's face turns red, as well it might, since in Act I the crystal ball mismatches two pairs of lovers: an arm-twisting loan shark (Steve Roland) with a taffy-sweet Ferris-wheel operator (Karen Morrow), and a glib but honest-hearted Coney barker (Richard Kiley) with a roundheeled golddigger (Luba Lisa). In Act II, Hackett second-guesses Sam; the baddies and the goodies mate...
...ELEVENTH HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guest stars are British Actress Rachel Roberts and Richard Kiley...
...smash hit on Broadway (it closed only last Saturday), where it won the Antoinette Perry award for best musical of the year. Still, the Boston production is far superior to the New York one, thanks mostly to the new lead players. The male lead switched from Richard Kiley to Howard Keel, seasoned star of Oklahoma and Carousel, and the female lead, played by Diahann Carroll in the New York version, went to the equally beautiful but more bouyant Barbara McNair...