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...main reason that The Gondoliers picks up is the arrival on the scene of Jill Weitzner as Tessa and Tori Jueds as Gianetta, the two Italian women who get engaged (quite randomly) to two gondolier brothers, Marco and Giuseppe, at the beginning of the show. Both show more spirit than the rest of the cast combined and have lovely voices to match. Given the lackluster direction they have to cope with, the performance of the two women is particularly remarkable...
Three of the star acts illustrate the show's underlying theme: family. Twin sisters Sarah and Karyne Steben -- Sharon Stone in duplicate on the high bar -- perform their mirror-image calisthenics in a space as intimate as the womb. The brothers Marco and Paulo Lorador bend their Apollonian physiques to some wondrous heavy lifting. And the Tchelnokovs (Nikolai, his wife Galina Karableva and their impossibly lithe son Anton, 7) describe patterns of living sculpture that are less physical than mystical. In the harmonious flow of their fearless feats, these performers might be parents and siblings from another, ideal world, where...
...Marco Torres turns the pompous old Gonzalo into a raging queen. Campy as a row of tents, he injects humor without losing sight of his original character...
...Chocolate, is one such kitchen magician. It is said that she cried even in her mother's womb and that the salt from her tears at birth filled a 40-lb. sack that spiced the family meals for years. She has so much love to give -- especially to Pedro (Marco Leonardi), a handsome rancher -- but upper-class convention would strangle it. Her tyrannical mother Elena (Regina Torne) decreed that as her youngest daughter, Tita must care for her and never marry...
...Contemplating the small courtyard that still contains fragments of the boyhood home of Marco Polo, one wonders: Did memories of almost this same scene sustain the 13th century adventurer in his wanderings? Or was happiness for him always the sight of Venice in the rear-view mirror...