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...show, For Happy Medium, though sabotaged by hopeless material, survives on energy and exuberance alone. It survives at least far into the second act when the production does finally give up the ghost; by that time, however, there have been enough fresh performances and touches to overwhelm the playgoer into an affirmative judgment...
After apportioning the blame impartially among the book, score, and cast, the playgoer can relax for a minute and recall the dancing. Don Driver and Diana Drake are no Champion, but do belong on the stage. When On With the Show moves at all, it is on their feet...
While awaiting the first curtain of Quadrille, the playgoer can glance over the program and figure out in the main what form the play is going to take. Listed on the bill are a Reverend Edgar Speven, a Gwendolyn (His Daughter) and a Catchpole. There is also a noblewoman with an awesome surname and a placid given one, The Marchioness of Heronden (Serena). Since this part is played by Lynn Fontanne and since the author is Noel Coward, the playgoer can settle back with complacence. The play may be several rungs down from Wilde, but it will...
...kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior, could plumb. At moments he can vanish into the character he is portraying like a salamander into stone-or a tiger in the reeds. Said one thoughtful playgoer: "The only other place I've ever seen such a terrifying shift of identity is in a schizophrenic ward. But this man has control of what he's doing. He has the power of total camouflage, like a dweller in the third day of creation." A moviemaker sighed last...
...Adler and Ross, the magical rainbow began to form about four years ago, when they met in a music publisher's office and decided to pool their talents. Adler's contributions: a childhood rebellion against formal music studies (his father is Pianist Clarence Adler), a perennial playgoer's love for the stage, and the experience in idea-juggling that came from an advertising job with a textile manufacturer. Ross's contributions: youthful stage experience in the Jewish theater and music studies at N.Y.U...