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Some plays would be rushed directly from the stage to an intensive-care unit were it not for a massive transfusion of star power. This season has offered several examples. First Monday in October and Tribute promptly expired with the departure of their respective stars, Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon. Alexis Smith is giving nightly resuscitation to Platinum. And but for the sly insinuative charms and stylish expertise of Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert, The Kingfisher would swiftly be recognized for the plucked Broadway turkey that...
Berg for example, is clearly ascinated by Perkin's odd relations with women--describing in detail his platonic ove for Elizabeth Lemmon, his stromy marriage, and his fights with Zelda Fitzgerald and Aline Berstein. Thomas Wolfe's lover--but does not attempt to find in them some secret to Perkins' great eye for fine writers. Rather, Berg simply presents his information about Maxwell Perkins the man, and then moves on to describe his relations with his authors and the conservative elite at Charles Scribners Sons...
...PLAY'S THE THING--or at least it ought to be. But there are times when a performer so transcends the script that the work seems to be just tagging along for the ride. Jack Lemmon's virtuosity in Bernard Slade's Tribute is a current example, and now Irene Worth has come along to provide another in Corinne Jacker's new play After the Season...
...hero, Scottie Templeton (Jack Lemmon), is a charming, but irresponsible public relations man with a bad case of leukemia. Scottie's one gift has been his ability to make people happy, and in his last days he tries to reconcile with the one person he has made miserable, his son, Jud (Robert Picardo), whom he abandoned in the divorce settlement. He amuses Jud with jokes and funny costumes, finds him a girl (Catherine Hicks), and smothers him with affection. But Jud, a 20-year-old fogy, refuses to shake the glad hand. "Mom said you once told Sonja Henie...
...other actors supply the tears, but most of the sweat comes from Lemmon, who gives his best performance in years. It is comparatively simple to make a character mean or nasty, lovable or funny. Capturing charm, that most elusive of all qualities, is much harder. Dropping all the irritating mannerisms that have marred his recent movies, Lemmon makes the task seem like ease itself. He is a better actor than he usually allows himself to be, and if it does nothing else, Tribute has restored him to the profession...