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...understand this craving for work. I've never done a stroke of work in my life." In Olivier's production the line is tragicomic. In the City Center production it is a little joke--some sort of Freudian slip--that only a foolish and insensitive man would make. Natasha, the wife of the sisters' brother, steals a lot of laughs in the City Center version by being so unremittingly vain and petty, but she's stealing from the sensitivity of the play...
...particularly as they affect his Prince Myshkin--a bloodhound who seeks out people's torments, not their persons; a self-deceived martyr hoping to relieve the suffering of mankind while he seems to further it. Montgomery creates a sexual triangle among the coarse Rogochin, the passionate, misused and vengeful Natasha, and the sexless Myshkin, undercutting any examination of either problems, and throwing the focus on the Prince's inability to get it up rather than his inability to assert his gentle values in a morally chaotic atmosphere. He also doubts the ability of anyone conscious of existential loneliness to hold...
...song and dance are managed well both by the cast and the orchestra (Dennis Crowley conducted and David Fechtor choreographed; the music itself sounds like something out of horror movies). If occasionally Mann underlines a situation where it isn't necessary (the Prince's tentative steps of love towards Natasha when he sings his proposal to her reminded me of the worst of West Side Story), she has on the whole brought off an incredibly complicated production with both grace and force...
Though I have several reservations about some major characters, the acting is consistently good. Of the toplined trio, Marianna Houston's Natasha is the most achieved; she has the best-written part, and takes advantage of it with the confident sweep of her broadest gestures and the intent restraint of her quiet moments. Christopher Joseph's Rogozhin is often caught between a swagger and a simper, and his rasping voice occasionally cracks, but his part is that of a hard on personified to both sexes, and I can't imagine how else he'd be able to play...
...around the red and green arena that will hold the track and field events. The West German crowd applauded handsomely (even for the East Germans) as each nation trooped its colors to dance-band music, which included When the Saints Go Marching In for the U.S. and Song for Natasha, in salute to the Soviet Union. The U.S. contingent was led by Discus Thrower Olga Connolly, 39, the mother of four, who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1956 to marry U.S. Olympian Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. In a tradition set by the 1908 U.S. Olympic team...