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Nevertheless, he has fully captured the humor and satire in the script, along with a substantial part of the colorful pageantry envisioned by the playwright. It was a clever idea, for example, to stage the Venetian wooing scene between Marco and Donate as a parody of the Balcony Scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...
...heroic" title role originally created by Alfred Lunt, Hal Holbrook conveys all the get-up-and-go, insensitivity, and mindlessness that anyone could demand. It is obvious that, even in his visit to Xanadu, Marco would not recognize a stately pleasure-dome if he saw one. David Wayne looks admirably like the 75-year old Kublai Khan, but he often does not act like one; I could not persuade myself that the man I was looking at was the man I was listening to. Zohra Lampert shows us an appealing Princess Kukachin, love-smitten yet unrequited; but she overexerts...
...that stands out is Ghazan, the young Khan of Persia, as played by Harold Scott, the most impressively gifted actor ever to come out of Harvard. Having, by the way, appeared in the Sanders revival, Scott now becomes the first person to play in two productions of Marco. His Ghazan has both grace and nobility. After his very first line, a woman behind me whispered to her companion, "Now there is a voice!" She was quite right: no other member of the Lincoln Center company can match his classical diction. And one hopes that, in another season, the Center will...
...suited to the out-of-doors and to travel, it's the piano). One easily grasps that this score is meant to be satirical. But satirical music, like any other kind, can be good or bad. This is bad. (Having myself composed the score for the 1954 production of Marco, I know well what the problems...
...this keep you away from the show-and heaven knows when Marco will be staged again. Enough of O'Neill's intentions are on view at the handsome new ANTA theatre. Many whom this satire is aimed at will be occupying its seats. If these people fail to realize that they are the butt, it won't be the fault of Quintero and his charges...