Word: mercutio
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...rest of the cast, except for Martin Andrucki and Sheila Hart, isn't worth mentioning. He interpreted Mercutio as a flit and she-with another director might have been an okay Nurse. Frank Hartenstein's set was a split-level bungalow that converted into a shower...
Before Nureyev defected to England, the Royal Ballet's lead was David Blair, and in one scene the two men dance together. The comparison is as illumiinating as it is cruel. Because he plays Mercutio, poor Blair has to keep smiling throughout. Not that Blair is bad. He dances with great control if a little stiffly. Then Nureyev comes along, with calves like artillery shells, and he is about as stiff as a bursting rocket. He doesn't have to leap to be amazing, he just has to move...
...inch the teenage Juliet, brimming with the dart and dash of adolescence. She began by cavorting kittenishly with a rag doll, then movingly matured into a woman in the throes of first love. Backed by sumptuous sets and costumes and an excellent supporting cast, most notably David Blair as Mercutio, Nureyev and Fonteyn were awarded 35 minutes of curtain calls...
...Romeo and Juliet, combining these with readings from the play. Mr. Manusevitch had obviously rehearsed this wonderful music thoroughly; except for some wretched brass playing in an andante section, all of the movements were well done. The speakers were also good, particularly Daniel Seltzer, who read an opening chorus, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and some of Friar Laurence's best lines. Lynn Milgrim Phillips made a charming Juliet, and Paul Schmidt an adequate Romeo, though his relentless theatricality became a bit tiresome...
...Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than Henry V could put in the field at Harfleur, this is a conflict of clowns rather than kings. As in Shakespeare's day, the faithful friend-Mercutio, Horatio or Mark Antony-is in short supply, but Polonius, prototype of the company man, seems to have proliferated...