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CYRANO DE BERGERAC by Edmond Rostand...
...play a wistful air. Welcome to empyrean, where wit is a state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...
...letters to friends, editors and agents speak constantly of his ambition, his frustration and his need for additional advances. The letters also attest to Conrad's unbounded faith in his talent. "I too hope to find my place in the rear of my betters," Conrad wrote, echoing Rostand's Cyrano. "But still my place...
...race to reach the South Pole-and his team's anguished way back, with the last of them dying only a few miles from base camp. While those productions continue in rotation, Michael York will open on July 27 in the lead of the third play, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac...
...Skin of Our Teeth (a revival of which will open at the Colonial Theater in Boston on August 51, and The Matchmaker. A small number, to be sure: but Chekhov's rightly elevated rank as a dramatist tests on only four plays, while Webster, Wycherly, Sheridan, Beaumarchais, Biichner and Rostand enjoy renown on the basis of two each...