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...brothers (needless to say, no one knows which) is really the King of Barataria, who was stolen away as a baby. Both men are rushed off to the palace by the Machiavellian Grand Inquisitor, who has been hurried into action by the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro. It seems that their daughter Casilda was married in infancy to the young King and they now want her to take her rightful place as Queen. Casilda, meanwhile, is secretly in love with the Duke's servant, Luis, whose mother is (of course) the former nurse of the King...
...strangest accents in a show full of pseudo-Brits but he prances about the stage in the best tradition of the "little man who sings the patter song," as Anna Russell put it. If he is less strong in the second act, his introductory song, "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," in the first is one of the best moments of the show. Blessedly, he understands the importance of enunciation. Choi plays the Inquisitor as a little more of a lech than necessary but makes up for it with his powerful voice, one of the best in the show. Unlike Aimee...
...events; that the sole efforts of this show are on the level of forcing the Grand Inquisitor to say things like "wicked awesome" and of a lame reference to Oprah will indicate the level of wit the show aspires to. There a few redeeming moments: the entrance of the Plaza-Toros is well staged and choreographer Susanna Witt's staging of the blind man's bluff dance is clever. Overall, however, the actors succeed by overcoming the direction, not because...
There is also the issue of pride. To the best of my knowledge, the Dead have never played at Harvard. The closest they have ever come was a concert on a bitter May after noon at Kresge Plaza at MIT in 1970. Some of the best live performances in my collection of bootlegged tapes are from Princeton and Cornell. And last month alone they played several shows at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I for one, refuse to believe that Harvard--which tops the U.S. News and World Report list, after all--is destined to be forever...
After the short Harvard scene, Cruise's character rushes off to interview with one of the firms in Copley Plaza Hotel where the rest of the scene was filmed, Sadkin said...