Word: romeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MIDNIGHT CONCERT was conceived three years ago, when someone decided that a program with "Till Eulenspiegel" and Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" would be much more fun played at midnight. It was a pitch to stonies and straights alike, and was so successful that it was followed the next year with a real gimmick--President Bok narrating an impeccably played "Peter and the Wolf"--which drew an even rowdier and more enthusiastic crowd. The next two midnight programs tried to recapture that success by continuing to take the audience back to its childhood with "The Sorcerer's Apprentice...
...festival with an extensive following not only in Minnesota but also in bordering Wisconsin and Iowa. It has given the world premiere of Lee Hoiby's Summer and Smoke, the American premiere of Carl Nielsen's Maskarade, and staged such other esoterica as Delius' A Village Romeo and Juliet and Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice...
...Europe with her family. But the proper American boy, while utterly fascinated by this spontaneous girl, can't come out of his somber cocoon long enough to express his love, more through a fear of social impropriety than of rejection. In one sense, the story is a psychological Romeo and Juliet: his family of assumptions and hers won't let their loves come together. There's also a element of class barriers, although neither Frederick Forsythe Winterbourne (Barry Brown) nor Annie P. Miller, alias Daisy (Cybill Shepherd) have money problems. Winterbourne has all of the necessary graces to succeed...
...Romeo's sidekick Benvolio, whom Shakespeare strangely allows to vanish completely from the play at the half-way point, Larry Carpenter lacks naturalness of speech. Theodore Sorel hoots his way through Prince Escalus, Wyman Pendleton is a hoarse Montague, and Donald Warfield's Paris is a proper stuffed shirt...
...Romeo's servant Balthasar, though seen, has nothing to say until near the play's end, when he comes into his own. Franklyn Seales, a recent Juilliard graduate, brings marked talent to the part. He is a chap who clearly bears watching...