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...easily her best to date, and not once does she lapse into any of the mannerisms that have marked her last three performances. Susan Channing plays the daughter. Her sheer technical skill is amazing, and she manipulates the emotions of the audience with the slightest change of expression. Bea Paipert plays the Cook and effectively establishes the mood and tone of the production, on which the other characters have to build. If Joel Silverstein and Jim Shuman, as the son-in-law and son, lack the vocal technique to completely put over their most difficult scenes, they make...
...Mama (Beatrice Paipert) and Big Daddy (Reggie Stuart) surmount their monotonous blocking with lively and intelligent performances that would grace any production. Miss Paipert's skillful and rapid transitions from mood to mood and Stuart's adept coarseness help keep things running smoothly while they were on stage...
Webster found evil more dramatically attractive than good, and his sympathetic characters are hard to play. But Beatrice Paipert (Vittoria's mother) and Bruce Heck (Francisco de Medici) speed those scenes when neither Weston nor Haskell are on stage, expressing their lines and feelings with such specificity that one doesn't long for the protagonists' re-entrance. Tom Griffin draws Marcello's decency well, another bright contrast to the diabolical setting...
...pausing before every exit as though he couldn't bear to leave, that one can't help but enjoy his performance. Spyro Harbouris plays Friar Lawrence as a deadpan Italian cobbler, and for one delightful moment Philip Stone totters on stage and then stumbles off as Friar John. Beatrice Paipert is not nearly disgusting enough as the nurse, but at least she laughs and weeps with admirable gusto...