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...Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, uncages a good roaring lion (Robert Preston) and a fearsomely impressive lioness (Rosemary Harris), but they spend the evening toying with a tiny blind mouse of a script...
...Robert Preston takes on this child's play with small range but fierce unrelenting intensity. Rosemary Harris-whether melting, mocking or Medean-proves once again that she is one of the two or three most formidable actresses on the American stage. Too bad she got stuck in a Plantagenutty play...
...PRESTON K. COVEY...
Works of this genre, known to the trade as "costume plays," were common currency before the war, and even immediately after. (Ingrid Bergman played Joan of Lorraine in the late forties.) Preston is quite right in his statement that, "It's the kind of thing Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne used to do," but I wonder if it's fair to remember that magnificent team for the cheapest of their quasi-historical vehicles. In better moments they could be found performing the works of Sherwood, Coward, Molnar, and Shaw...
...even better than she did as Ophelia two year ago; while cherubic and smooth-skinned Bruce Scott, late of the Merv Griffin Show, fails to convince anybody that he's Prince John, who, as the text repeatedly states, is the victim of massive acne. As for the miscast Mr. Preston, we are reminded with his every movement what a great musical comedy performer he is. Unfortunately, the depressing influence of the Literary has dimmed the euphoria with which he used to light into all those trombones. Nowadays, he resembled no one so much as Tiberius Caesar of whom Suetonius said...