Word: milgrim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashion, Gwyllum Evans, as the mayor, uses exaggerated pomposity and self-importance to produce a cynical caricature of a corrupt Russian official. And Maureen Fitzgerald fills out his pomposity in her portrayal of the mayor's domineering, vain, and dissatisfied wife. But the scene-stealing prize goes to Lynn Milgrim as the mayor's bovine daughter. Her acting includes more than the clomping, the staring, and the whining she does so well; she is a pretty girl who captures the humor and pathos of being plain. That is no mean feat...
...even in the Pope's presence. Tony van Bridge seems far too well-mannered with the Establishment, but among his scientist friends he back-slaps sufficiently. He brings extreme power to the role, perhaps too much. The rest of the Charles cast rarely reaches his heights or depths. Lynn Milgrim provides the one exception with her brilliant performance as Galileo's light-hearted daughter who changes into a madonna-like grey-haired spinster...
Lisa Kelley, who played Miranda, appears to be the twin of Lynn Milgrim, only a little less petulant. She was perfect. John Ross played Ferdinand with almost equal grace, mixing it, correctly I think, with the unsteadiness of a very young man who thinks he has just become king...
...gives the Ragpicker extraordinary fire in his mock defense, in fact a satirical indictment, of the oil seekers, and Earl Montgomery as the president scowls and plots so vilely that we are ready to cheer with the inhabitants of Chailot when he and his fellow conspirators are destroyed. Lynn Milgrim and Paul Schmidt make attractively childlike lovers, whose only reason for being in the play is to love each other. Everyone, down to the flowers-girl and the doorman, performs with grace...
...cast has as much fun playing these parts as the audience has watching them. Lynn Milgrim, a frequent visitor to the Harvard stage, lets her mobile face and huge eyes go wild. Her Lydia Languish pouts, purrs, and scolds with vivacious charm. Katherine Squire as Mrs. Malaprop declaims her ridiculous lines with such assurance and poise that they seem even more ridiculous. Earl Montgomery as Sir Anthony is a combination of Elliott Perkins and Nikita Khrushchev, polite and civilized one minute, stamping and roaring the next. As his son, the Captain, Richard Clarke views the behavior of Sir Anthony...