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Richard John's performance as Boss Mangan does not evince the "rugged strength" expected of a man whose single-minded business interests threaten to overthrow the existing social order. John instead portrays the kind of character who was kicked around during kindergarten and is only now getting his revenge on humanity. His frenzied, whining manner accords--often hysterically--the Mangan who cannot keep pace with Heartbreak House's ever-changing pretensions. But because his malice barely emerges, John's performance can perhaps best be defined as comic basrelief. Similarly, Peter Ginna is almost endearing as the burglar who not only...
From his viewpoint as the last vestige of the old order, Shotover recognizes the problem most lucidly...
...such clear distinctions in other aspects of Heartbreak House suggests why the play has been subjected to numerous interpretations since its first performance in 1920. Shaw's final act is especially ambiguous and leaves the audience pondering whether the playwright entertained hopes for the establishment of a new social order or whether, like Chekhov, he foresaw only a grim continuation of existing institutions...
...hysterical series of disasters that teach him to view life a bit more realistically. To reproduce the Voltairian spirit. Prince engaged Hugh Wheeler (A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd) to re-write the book and Stephen Sondheim (ditto) to furnish some additional lyrics. He also "cast young" in-order to convey the naivete the original production lacked. The Loeb version has added a few direct confrontations between Candide and Voltaire, in which the character and his creator discuss the manifestations of God's will in the world: this dialogue prevents the musical from becoming a mindless circus...
...staging his 1974 musical version of Candide, director Hal Prince completely tore apart and re-arranged a New York theater in order that the show could take place on all sides of the audience. The current Loeb production does not quite secreate Prince's arena, since director George Hamlin felt it would inhibit the view of some parts of the audience in several scenes. But Derek McLane, the set designer, has replaced a number of seats with a huge pit, in which the audience sits on benches and on the floor, and has also created a number of platforms connected...