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...Margaret Leighton gave the performance of the evening. There was one moment when her body seemed to break apart as she crossed the stage. You saw how completely the woman and her tiny hopes were crushed. Whenever she spoke, she started out eagerly, then collapsed from fear of being reprimanded. Still, she perched on her chair awaiting the split second in a conversation that would be hers to fill...
...Broadway THE LITTLE FOXES. An admirable revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play in Lincoln Center demonstrates how securely bricks of character can be sealed together wilh the mortar of plot. Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Richard Dysart and Margaret Leighton are expertly guided by Director Mike Nichols through gilt-edged performances as members of a family afflicted with a vulpine itch for plunder in the turn-of-the-century South...
Oscar Hubbard (E. G. Marshall) is a mean, vindictive half-man who vents his malice by slapping his genteel, alcoholic wife Birdie (Margaret Leighton). Oscar's brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders...
...present production is a model of casting. Anne Bancroft's congealed contempt, George Scott's rasping arrogance, Margaret Leighton's wounded bird cries-all these file on the nerves as Director Mike Nichols expertly dovetails scenes of explosive malignance. For the first time, the Beaumont Theater's open stage does not seem to be sprawling off into infinity, as Howard Bay's set and lighting define the Hubbard living room like the white, spare square of a prize ring...
...still more talked-about revival is Lillian Hellman's 1939 The Little Foxes, with Mike Nichols directing a company comprising Anne Bancroft, Margaret Leighton, George C. Scott, E. G. Marshall and Geraldine Chaplin. Not least of the season's curiosities: Soviet Playwright Aleksie Arbuzov's The Promise, the first postwar Russian work to play Broadway. Directed by Britain's Frank Hauser, it is a romance about life and love in Leningrad...