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With an expressive off-Broadway arena-staging by José Quintero, The Quare Fellow is sprawlingly uncertain in design and graphically unflinching in detail. As an in-the-dock record, with capital punishment on trial, it avoids being strident but is only fitfully trenchant. Where it comes off well is as a tragedy of manners-of convicts outraged that a condemned man has not saved his cigarette butts, betting their Sunday bacon on whether the quare fellow will hang, greedily rushing the guard carrying the quare fellow's last dinner, fighting in the quare fellow's grave over...
...refurbish the perennially popular double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, the Met's Rudolf Bing got lavish, handsome but unimaginative new sets from the hands of Scene Designer Rolf Gerard, hired a top Broadway director, Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero. Although he had never done an opera before, and had seen only half a dozen in his life, Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously...
...other hand, few off-Broadway companies have a life beyond a year or two. When a group is successful, the bright lights who made it so will advance up the ladder to the Broadway stage; if not successful, they will be back pounding the Pavements. For instance, Jose Quintero, director of The Iceman Cometh, directed Long Day's Journey into Night on Broadway. Me Candido, a very warm and pleasant new play presented by a non-profit settlement house group has been sold to the movies; Kim Stanley and many other now successful actors and actresses began their career...
...Opera, will invade Broadway with the world première of Graham Greene's The Potting Shed, follow up with a New York premiere of O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. After seeing their Iceman, O'Neill's widow asked Director Jose Quintero and associates to stage the profitable Broadway premiere of Long Day's Journey into Night. 'Take a Giant Step, which analyzes in painful detail the struggles of a Negro boy in a small New England town, has been bought by Hollywood, will also be produced next year...
...James in as many pages. Barbara O'Neil's portrayal of the intriguing Serena Merle, ineptly introduced by Archibald, is a major disappointment. While she sails imposingly about the stage, she evokes less "the wisest woman in the world" than the grande dame of Kansas City. Director Jose Quintero, however, must take the blame for allowing one outrageous failure. As Isabel's uncle, Halliwell Hobbes does a prolonged parody of Lionel Barrymore and exits with the rending cackle of a road-show Silas Marner...