Word: rosalinde
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...signed for the title role in next season's Coco, an oversized Broadway musical about Couturiere Coco Chanel that will have a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Andre Previn, and a tab of $500,000. The musical, gestating since 1959, was supposed to star Rosalind Russell, but she got entangled in movie commitments...
...times, Michael's actors give him admirable support. Tigar as Jaques is a large figure, touching and funny, and even his lugubrious soliloquy comes off well in the end. Newenhuyse's Adam is far funnier than it is wrong-headed. Norma Levin is a strong and charming Rosalind, playing her maturation for good laughs and better audience identification, emphasizing the quick intelligence of Shakespeare's heroine. Danius Turek is a triumph of physical casting as Orlando, a huge, handsome, stereotype sweetheart, his readings and emotional range consistently pleasing. As portrayed by Carolyn Firth, Celia is at once acid and naive...
...were garbed in wigs and flowing gowns but there were no falsies and no falsettos. The result was a remark ably chaste performance free of disturbing homoerotic overtones. While Lon don reviewers generally had mixed feelings about the experiment, they praised the angular grace of Ronald Pickup's Rosalind, which evoked memories of the sprightly 1961 performance in the same role by Vanessa Redgrave...
...part of Rosalind's confidante Celia, Charles Kay heightened the hu mor simply by reciting his iambic rantings in a sonorous baritone. And the actor-actors, headed by Jeremy Brett as Orlando, supported their mates with straight-faced manliness...
Director Clifford Williams, who was initially dubious about using men in women's roles, was delighted with the results. "Underlying the love scenes be tween Orlando and Rosalind there is an incandescent purity," he says. "Men are somehow better at this than wom en. Actresses, even the best ones, are likely to gush a little." Williams is mus ing over other possibilities: "It might be interesting to do Antony and Cleopa tra with a man as Cleopatra. There isn't a female around who can really play that role...