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...tonight, Fiddler has received both standing ovations and rave reviews. The musical and acting ability of the cast deserves much acclaim, but the success of any production of Fiddler depends on the strength of the leading character, Tevye, who confides in God and the audience. According to director Grick Neher, "If the Tevye is strong, then the play is strong. If the Tevye is weak, then the play is weak." In this production of Fiddler the Tevye is very strong...
...Bernard Slade, creators of The Partridge Family, are tightening their choke-hold on the teeny-bop audience. Pop Idol Bobby Sherman (Bubble Gum and Braces) is the sure draw as the composer in an unsung songwriting team. He is also guardian of his twelve-year-old sister (Susan Neher), who serves as housekeeper for him and his sappy live-in lyricist (Wes Stern), to the agitation of local social workers. The series' premise is a rather icky wicket, and Simon and Garfunkel the boys are not. But, as in The Partridge Family, the cast is disarming and the whole...
Rudolf Forster plays Macheath with perfect self-satiric detachment and ingratiating charm, and Carola Neher manages Polly's changing character very subtly. Despite my regrets about the movie's confusion both in purpose and details, I found it delightful. It captures the bitter, ironic, and warm humor of the original...
...final scene the audience was deeply moved by Oedipus (Tenor Gerhard Stolze) staggering onstage before Designer Caspar Neher's abstract backdrop (it looked like a microphotograph of a germ culture) and raising his sightless eyes with a beatific smile. Soprano Varnay refused to watch from the wings because "I dream about such things." Reported TIME Correspondent Paul Moor: "For a non-German-speaking audience, this opera has long, boring stretches because the music is so subservient to the text. Nevertheless, Orff has created a theater work of gripping power...
Blood-Red Moon. The Met's production of Wozzeck does full justice to its dramatic power. The sets by Germany's Caspar Neher are starkly effective: a phosphorescently glowing landscape dominated by a blood-red moon and lumpish, Van Gogh-like stumps of trees; a solidly bourgeois German hill town, contrasting with the madness unfolding before it. Hero of the evening: Conductor Karl Boehm, who, after an unprecedented 24 rehearsals, led his huge orchestra through Berg's convoluted score with masterful clarity and passion...