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...play relying so heavily in both form and content on the power of words to have such an actor and actress in lead roles suggests a failure in direction as well. Valerie Lester's approach to the play is impeccably traditional: not necessarily a flaw, but once more emphasizing the language which is beyond the performers. Lester's pacing of the mostly uncut script is smooth and well-jointed, and a few nice touches--like a drum beat behind the duel scene--relive the general disarray a bit. Her failure lies in the casting of the show...
...Harvard Shakespeare Theater's Romeo and Juliet this weekend and next. There's not much one can say about the world's most famous tragic love story, except that this interpretation has a great deal of "fast and furious" action, according to one cast member, and that director Valerie Lester is aiming for highly emotional heights. The production will be a fairly straightforward one--in other words, Capulet will be an Italian nobleman and not a fascist dictator; one girl, not three, will play Juliet; and Romeo will stab Tybalt with a sword, not a sausage...
...Harvard Jazz Band will perform several of Mingus's own arrangements, including his ambitious "Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife..." and his haunting tribute to saxophonist Lester Young, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." Also featured will be new arrangements of "Sue's Changes" and the rarely performed "Fables of Faubus," as well as a Mingus medley called "Amigus Amingus." This promises to be an evening of inspired music...
...other of the two county races without opposition, John Danehy prepares to stick with his present position while the two other county commissioners, Michael McLaughlin and S. Lester Ralph test other political waters in non-election years for them...
Independent candidate S. Lester Ralph, a former candidate for Attorney General and current county commissioner, has been campaigning heavily since the primary, trying to shore up what he already feels is a strong constituency in the county. Ralph's name recognition should be enough for him to win, but then again, Massachusetts people have never taken kindly to the Independent label. It will be another test of the power of the Democratic party in Middlesex County, where Republicans and Independents are outnumbered three...