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...leads sensible Hazel and tough old Bigwig to organize a group of dissidents and set out for Fiver's dimly perceived paradise, the Watership Down of the title. In time they are aided by a delightfully loony seagull (whose wonderful vocal characterization is supplied by the late Zero Mostel), who acts as scout and air arm in the climactic struggle against the fascist warren of the evil General Woundwort. Along the way there are troubles with the dogs, cats and humans of a nearby farm, some semimystical encounters with the Black Rabbit (death), not to mention such mundane problems...
...anecdotes with analysis to describe "a lifetime of work in the theatre." The work ranges from the triumph of Equus, which offered the change to act with three stars--Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins, and Richard Burton--and the tragedy of The Merchant, which died with its first star--Zero Mostel...
...Dutch scientist Van Helsing, I.M. Hobson offers a startling reincarnation of the late Zero Mostel. On opening night, the player of Lord Godalming was not yet secure in his lines. As for the other roles, they are standard summer stock...
...Wedgeworth) and Portland Angel (Marcia Rodd) compare their "mutual" husband's bedside manner over drinks--many, many drinks. Wedgeworth's naive and honest persona and Rodd's cool, assertive character play off each other perfectly; both actresses are accomplished in their timing and facial expression. Not since Zero Mostel and Phil Silvers in A Funny Thing... have a duo coordinated their deliveries so well...
...conflict is also apparent in her Lowell House single: her book shelves are full of the normal Harvard fare, while the signed photographs of people she's performed with--John Davidson, Zero Mostel, Joan Rives--paper her walls, along with a hat collection that started, she says, when admirers sent her various hats. Even a high grade average in Government, she says, "is not at all appropriate to the theater world...