Word: langella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesson deals with a professor who has the unfortunate habit of murdering his pupils. He requires truly virtuoso acting, and Frank Langella just wasn't quite up to it. The professor is required to grow continuously more irritated, and concurrently more forceful, throughout the play. Ideally the process should be completely smooth but Mr. Langella crammed almost all of the change into one instant. As the pupil, Myra Mailloux handled the contrasting decline of her socialite poise with greater smoothness. Alice Lindbergh as the maid who has seen this happen 40 times was good...
...circus. The atmosphere of pure glitter and no meaning could not have fitted the situation better. The family of a clown strive first to make him admit to a love of hashed potatoes, and then to get married. This apparently signifies acceding to the ordinary world. Mr. Langella was excellent as Jack and Dorothy Gurvitz was outstanding as his sister. Karla Feinzig as the girl he is to marry was beautiful, but not terribly good in the crucial seduction scene. Again Tom Davis' sets were very good...