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Next scene: Graves, who is the brother of Gunsmoke's Jim Arness, browses through photos of available M:I agents. He invariably chooses Barbara Bain, the group's sexy smoke screen; Martin Landau (in real life Barbara's husband), master of sleight of hand and disguise; Greg Morris, ace engineer; and Peter Lupus, strong man. The team sets off to the rescue without informing the audience of its plan-which is always a variation of the con game. Each operative wins the enemy's trust by playing a separate innocent role; together, they catch the villain...
This inexplicable union of victim and executioner so unsettles Nicolas that he can no longer write fiction. To shape a new life, he takes a job with a new magazine, which assigns him to explore France "as you would the Amazon." He is accompanied on the quest by Marcelle Landau, a beautiful young woman who, because she had been a homely child, still thinks herself ugly. They become lovers, and since each is a grade A neurotic, the romance takes a rollercoaster course...
Disappointment is strongest when I look back at the vibrant version that the late Jack Landau put together for the Festival in 1958. I had hoped that the new production would duplicate the virtues of the old; but it falls far short...
...shimmering fairies, to the vibraphone; this is too easy, and I cannot rid myself of the feeling that the instrument is inherently vulgar. Susa's score does not come up to the one Marc Blitzstein wrote for the 1958 production. (It is sadly ironic that Blitzstein and director Jack Landau, who contributed so much to the joyous success of the earlier show, have both since become victims of bizarre, brutal murders...
...shimmering fairies, to the vibraphone; this is too easy, and I cannot rid myself of the feeling that the instrument is inherently vulgar. Susa's score does not come up to the one Marc Blitzstein wrote for the 1958 production. (It is sadly ironic that Blitzstein and director Jack Landau, who contributed so much to the joyous success of the earlier show, have both since become victims of bizarre, brutal murders...