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...really is an angel," says Sebastian Engleberg, her voice teacher for ten years), there are others who feel that Flicka's full potential has yet to be tapped. One of those is veteran Stage Director Frank Corsaro, who worked with her at the Houston première of The Seagull. Corsaro senses a certain turbulence, even aggressiveness inside Flicka. "I would love to see her play a real bitch," he says. The most immediate possibility is the neurotic, highly sexed Fennimore in Delius' Fennimore and Gerda, which Corsaro is discussing for next season with the New York City...
Fiendlike Queen. Strehler's Macbeth turned out to be carefully thought out but disappointing. The play is one of Shakespeare's most vivid, bloody and craftily psychological works. So was Verdi's operatic treatment when he finally finished revising it 18 years after its 1847 premiėre. Strehler's stylized production is bloodless and static; lethal emotion is indicated by second-rate symbols. Once they seize the throne, Macbeth and his lady trail around in long, heavy robes apparently intended to represent both royalty and their guilty burden. But the onlooker simply worries about whether...
Going Ape by Nick Hall. Five doors do not a Feydeau farce make. But in this world premiére, Playwright Nick Hall, 30, must be credited with the right source of inspiration. One wishes he had stuck more tenaciously to the great French farceur and depended less on college humor and parodies of old '40s movies. However, Going Ape is truly zany. The hero, Rupert Yaeggi (Dennis Michaels), is a kind of Candide in reverse. He has decided that this is the worst of all possible worlds, and he has opted to commit suicide...
Television's Second Season got started before the disastrous First Season was fully under way, and it threatens to continue with premières into the Third Season, otherwise known as Reruns...
...SONNY AND CHER SHOW (CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) represents a triumph over adversity. They are divorced, she is carrying another man's child, and somehow they manage to put together a very engaging première. In part, they do so because they confronted headon, with the right blend of edginess and good humor, their slightly grotesque circumstances. They will probably do more for the cause of amicable separation than all the Norman Lears...