Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away and takes care of Jimmy while he's there. In a little under 24 hours, Jimmy discovers he's committed bigamy, obtains two annulments, and takes yet a third wife--the Lady Kay (Shella McCarthy), sister of the Duke of Durham (Dan Strickler), a down-and-out nobleman who has been forced by estate and inheritance taxes to dabble in a bit of booze running...
...well. He takes open, youthful joy in being onstage, while respecting what he calls "the sensitive weave" of the work's overall design. His Albrecht in Giselle, for example, is a coltish kid in love with the idea of love, touchingly unable to comprehend that, as a nobleman, he just cannot have this terrific peasant girl. He excels at shrewd, straightforward comedy. In Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour...
Arms and the Man. Shaw hits the Mainstage again, in one of his classic intellectual comedies about a Bulgarian nobleman who writes an operetta called The Chocolate Soldier because he loads his revolver with chocolate. Shaw outraged public opinion with this play by revealing that Bulgarians of high social position did not bathe. The director is the very accomplished Evangline Morphos, but the Mainstage's penchant for competent, unexciting productions of good but not great plays will probably not be reversed. Tonight through Sunday at 8 p.m. as well as next week...
FRANCISCO CENCI (a sixteenth centaurs Roman nobleman who arranged the death of two of his sons and raped his daughter has intrigued a safety of authors including Stendahl. Shelley, and in this century. Antonin Artaud Beatrice, his daughter, added by her step-mother Lucretia and her remaining brothers, avenged the Counts crimes by hiring two assassins who killed him driving nails through his eye and throat. The plot was soon discovered and Lucretia. Beatrice, and her brother Giacomo were beheaded after Pops Clement VII deed their-piers for pardon...
LOOK AT THE HARLEQUINS by Vladimir Nabokov. At 75, the old artificer has written a sly, funny fiction about an exiled Russian nobleman and novelist who resembles a certain writer with the initials...