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...musical comedy-opera by John Latouche and Jerome Moross recreates the adventures of Ulysses and Penelope and Menelaus and Helen in an early 20th-century American setting. The present production puts the story across with great gusto thanks to the work of a generally talented cast, greatly aided by director Stephen Aaron and musical director Howard Brown. What it lacks in polish, it almost always makes up for in vigor. Backed up by the sumptuous settings and lighting of Webster Lithgow and Jordan Jelks, the actors really go to town--especially in the ladies department...
...Hector's fierce and fruitless effort to make good this claim that constitutes Giraudoux's action. Troy's greatest warrior, Hector (well played by Michael Redgrave), comes home to find his brother Paris home ahead of him, with Helen. Hector is determined to return Helen to Menelaus, King of Sparta, and so avoid war; nor is the assured, shallow, minxlike Helen (amusingly played by Diane Cilento) the obstacle. The real obstacles are Troy's idealists, who particularly idealize war; its elderly poets, who love celebrating young men's deaths; its common people, who are spoiling...
...Named after the second brightest star. In Greek mythology, Canopus was the steersman of famed Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of even more famed Helen of Troy...
...Helen Goes to Troy translates Homer into French bedroom farce. Its mythological Greeks and Trojans chase each other around marble bathtubs and across perfumed counterpanes. Its Hellas consists entirely of boulevards and boudoirs. Its Helen, beneath her classical robes, is a bored upper-class Parisienne whose bumbling bourgeois spouse Menelaus (well played by Ernest Truex) is sent on a trip to Naxos, returns unexpectedly to find his wife in bed with Paris, an unawakened but erotically gifted Trojan shepherd...
...present day and age than perhaps for many decades, nevertheless the most illiterate school-child is familiar with the fundamentals of the story,--the struggle of the Goddesses for the Golden Apple, its award by Paris to Venus, the faithlessness of Helen to her Greek King-husband Menelaus, and the subsequent war on the windy plains, and ultimate disaster. These are the events told by Homer in lines that for the few who still can taste them in this apostate age are the ultimate in poetic fare. No poetry of succeeding ages has rivaled them on this or even...