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Like many things, including certain lectures, Moore's performances seemingly run in groups of three. After an initial series of successes in Foul Play, 10, and his masterpiece, Arthur, Moore fizzled in Six Weeks, Lovesick and Romantic Comedy. (A biblical satire, Wholly Moses, remains in a class, or lack thereof, all by itself) with any luck, then, Unfaithfully Yours marks the start of a new series of successes. Currently shooting Best Defense with Supercomic Eddie Murphy. Moore has given at least one reason here to expect still more laughs...
...lower animal kingdom. There is, for example, the seagull that invades the dining salon, flapping everyone into hysteria. Then there is the matter of the Emir's pet rhinoceros, languishing in the hold and giving off a most unpleasant stench. Seasick, any reasonable person might suppose; lovesick, the opera crowd prefers to believe, bringing the beast into their own frame of reference. Would that the basso profundo could hypnotize the creature with his low tones as easily as he does the chicken from the galley, on which he demonstrates his powers...
...resolution of he is silliness is solidly entertaining. The seven maids primp and pose throughout all their numbers, including "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We," and the serious self important soldiers march about the stage singing things like "When I First Put This Uniform On. "Led by Colonel Calverly (John Hoyoker), Major Murgathroyd (Daniel Pantano) and the slightly effeminate Lieutenant. The Duke of Dunstable (Michael Calmes), we watch the soldiers try to lure the ladies away the soldiers try to lure the ladies away from their poets. Finally figuring that if you can't beat them they transform themselves into aesthetically pleasing...
...some loss of student and House flavor. Three of the five main voices are Boston-area professional musicians; they carry the main musical burden for more than three hours. But in no sense do they overshadow the two undergraduate leads. Sebastian Knowles as Figaro and Nan Hughes as the lovesick pageboy Cherubino. Indeed these two make it obvious that casting professionals is not the only way to go. The valiant, largely student orchestra conducted by Malina and Michael Bank '86 teaches the same lesson; the musicians don't hang together too well on the score's subtleties, but they stay...
Instead of working up to the stupendous climax which the hectic comic pace demands, Lovesick merely runs out of things to show, and--after only 90 minutes--concludes on a typically sappy boy-gets--girl note. Successful contemporary comedy demands a more innovative approach; captivated too many times already by a vast assortment of comedic episodes, audiences rightly expect a four-dollar ticket price to buy them cleverness, not redundancy...