Word: kukachin
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...David Wayne looks admirably like the 75-year old Kublai Khan, but he often does not act like one; I could not persuade myself that the man I was looking at was the man I was listening to. Zohra Lampert shows us an appealing Princess Kukachin, love-smitten yet unrequited; but she overexerts. She needs more simplicity, purity, fragility, and musicality...
...performance I shall longest cherish is Joseph Wiseman's portrayal of the aged Chinese sage Chu-Yin. One senses an inexhaustible profundity beneath his face and eyes. His bearing; his gestures, his gait all strike unfailingly true. He is even careful to read the letter from Kukachin properly from right to left and top to bottom. If Quintero would allow him to forsake the occasional cracking falsettos in his diction, he would be perfect. Still, such subtle and rounded playing is rare on any stage. This man is every inch...
Thanks to Beni Montresor, a sumptuous array of Oriental costumes dazzles the eye in scene after scene until the final mourning conclave at Kukachin's catafalque, where all are imposingly clothed in a uniform white (for white rather than black is the funeral color in China...
...other two leading roles, Thomas Gaydos as Kublai, and Phillipa Scott, as his granddaughter Kukachin, were quite up to the level of performance required. The shame was that their talent went begging, and there was no challenge for them. The fact that neither of them improved much upon their poor, stock parts is a telling count against them, but both have proven themselves in better roles. Among the more minor actors, only Andre Gregory is outstanding...
Robert S. Schwarz '55 will lead the cast in the central role of Marco, with Pippa Scott '56 playing opposite him as the Princess Kukachin. Thomas V. Gaydos '54, who played Thomas Becket in the HDC's winter production of "Murder in the Cathedral," is cast as the Emperor Kubla Kaan. Robert J. Beatey '55 will appear as the sage...