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...story, of course, is Agatha Christie's: a closed-room, or rather a closed-ship murder mystery. The most significant victim is Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles), an heiress taking a Nile cruise for her honeymoon. As it develops, just about everyone in first class has both motive and opportunity to do her in. Naturally, one does not imagine that Dame Agatha's immortal detective, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), pulled any triggers, and one can only spare the odd suspicious thought for Colonel Rice (David Niven), who assists him in his investigation. But that leaves plenty of others: Bette...
...Farrow as the jilted lover of Linnet's new husband; George Kennedy as her American lawyer, trying to hide his raids on her assets; Jack Warden as a doctor who feels Linnet has been slandering him; and Angela Lansbury, who is about to lose a libel suit Linnet has brought against her. There are also a mistreated maid and a handsome young Communist who have their class differences to settle with...
...Since his death, he has often been thought of as a kind of stodgy musical ecclesiastic, partly because of the ceremonial repetition of his Messiah, partly because of Handel's own susceptibility to mawkishly awkward texts-most notably in the numerous bird songs like "Hark! 'Tis the linnet and the thrush" in Joshua...
...production, offered by the Harvard Opera Guild Workshop, is spirited and competent, even if the singers cannot quite cope with every difficulty in the score. Linnet Houle and Vivian Thomas, as the two rival prima donnas, are supported by John Leonard, Robert Scher and Thomas Glick, with string orchestra and piano. This afternoon's free repeat performance will provide you with a delightful forty-five minute interlude...
...other leading performers faired not quite so well. As the Major-General's daughter who loves Frederick, Linnet Houle was hindered by a rather unfortunate voice. The same difficulty hampered Richard Hamlen, Jr. (the pirate king) although not so much. Hamlen cut a fine figure of a pirate, but octaves cannot be pasted to a voice as easily as the moustache was stuck on his upper lip. Nancy Adam was a passable ward, but Anna Jeffrey was somewhat jittery...