Word: playing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway THE FRONT PAGE. It is always a surprise when a play can be revived after 40 years without looking and sounding like a doddering idiot. If this production has a rather cornball, period flavor, that only adds relish to a high-spirited and highly amusing evening...
...PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a black panther of a play, stalking the stage as if it were an urban jungle. Playwright Charles Gordone is too honest to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow, but he tells the racial truth about today...
...evil Don John, who is the cause of all the trouble, Michael McGuire is aptly sourfaced. At the play's end, when John is reported to have been captured in flight and brought back, Benedick says, "Think not on him till tomorrow." But director Gill brings John on stage at once to participate merrily in the concluding festive dance. This is a glaring mistake; John is not to be so readily forgiven, nor exempted from the "brave punishments" Benedick promises to devise...
...look for anything more in this play than pure entertainment. As such, however, this production is the most nearly satisfying Much Ado in my experience...
...Bullitt's treatment of McQueen is full of abysmal lies. Never seen out of his black turtleneck (a cop?) and sports car, he is played for a sexy and rich youth-figure who is persecuted by Vaughan, an evil representative of the Rotten Police Structure. Whatever McQueen does, the picture condones. His bumbling unfortunately amounts to virtual murder--to which his reaction are entirely visceral. Godard at least criticizes his terrorists; this one is rewarded, and the audience is expected to love him for his incompetence as much as the film. At its end, after he has managed to kill...