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Jesus (Stanley Ferryman) is mute throughout the musical, but as he is brought down from the Cross in a sculptured pieta, his body speaks the moving language of anguish. Dual aspects of Mary's character are depicted by Salome Bey and Mabel Robinson. An electrifying showstopper is provided by Delores Hall, who seems to be AWOL from the heavenly choir as she sings I Love You So Much Jesus. That is really what this luminous show is all about...
Susan Willets Van Cott, as Mabel, is good enough to play opposite Fuller. Van Cott, who previously portrayed Phyllis in Iolanthe, sings the lovely "Poor wandering one" with operatic ease, her voice blending with the orchestral accompaniment. The part of the Major General's daughter and Frederic's wife-to-be call for little dramatic range, but Van Cott at least walks through the role without woodeness...
...some of the most famous people, places, music and night spots of Harlem from 1920 through 1940. The Broadway production opened in March at a New York repertory theater, and supplied many cast members for the national company that is doing the Boston production. Many of these actors, including Mabel Lee, Jay Flash Riley, and Vernon Washington are, in turn, recreating roles they originally perfected during the 1930s and 1940s...
...Mabel's inability to defend herself against the people who wanted to commit her has a lot to do with women's traditional role. Mabel couldn't defend herself because she wasn't sure she had all that much to defend. As she says of her children. "The only thing I ever did in my life that was anything at all was to make you guys." Given the classic female yardstick of achievement she was absolutely right. It's no wonder that her first response to the news of her impending committal was "Tell me what you want...
...their conflicts with "normal" society's behavioral expectations. After all, the official line on civilization is that the society draws the line around the scope of an individual's actions in the interests of order and that the individual must sublimate his or her impulses which threaten that order. Mabel crossed that line by being too open or, as Cassavetes put it: "She had an idea that put her in an institution." As for the way they dealt with each other, society told Nick to commit her, so he committed her. Their problem was not a universal problem of love...