Word: reiffel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...episode (in which a gigantic and incredibly spooky inflatable Deity fills the stage), "It would be better if I was a book. . . [a book] would be very clear." Instead, Potluck represents the graphic adventures of a rampaging Id--that of director/author Fitch and his fellow writers Prum and David Reiffel--leaving the question of clarity up to the spectator...
...pace never lags, supported by Richard A. Shore's brisk musical direction and David Reiffel's sophisticated, rapid-fire blocking. After 19 successive dousings in intense musical emotion, the audience probably couldn't manage more than the hour the show occupies. Marry Mc A Little isn't cathartic, and it doesn't leave the satisfying sense that Sondheim has worked out the problems of love; then again, no one would really expect him to. Instead, his insights are left vacue enough and universal enough to roll anybody up, and that makes the show as good...
...Judith Reiffel Berlin...
...Reiffel's abundant talent saves the day. His sense of musical style rivals his ear for dry martini English witticisms as he enlivens the Sullivan-style score with occasional jazzy solos and melodramatic Latin rhythms. One of the best songs. "The Buck Stops Here," plays off the kind of Honour, Valor, and Cheerful Alacrity of plucky young Englishmen that Chariots of Fire took so seriously. Best of all, the score leaves us with a catchy tune to hum as we leave the theater--"Say Goodbye...
Playwright-lyricist-composer-actor-director David Reiffel '79 displays a prodigious talent in the first three of these roles, the ability to step in quite competently in an emergency in the fourth, and an inability to step out in the last. A director with more detachment might have added the perspective and staging skills necessary to pull together a strikingly uneven cast into a production more consistent than this. As it is, strong, tight scenes are followed by ones where clever lyrics and even plot are lost to often-weak voices and to a very competent but overly vigorous orchestra...