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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) includes Jose Ferrer in a captivatingly romantic performance, perfectly suited to Edmond Rostand's lightweight romantic play. Eating half a macaroon, playing with his swords, swaggering about town, Ferrer is always as flamboyant as the part demands. Michael Gordon's direction is nothing special, and the rest of the cast is mediocre in this one-man show...
Translated and adapted from EDMOND ROSTAND by ANTHONY BURGESS...
Cyrano. Although The Crimson panned it, Christopher Plummer and so forth have courageously continued to perform this musical. With such intestinal fortitude and Rostand's play both in it, how bad could it be? 7:30 at the Colonial, until April...
Cyrano. Anthony Burgess's clever script is reduced to a devil of a state, but a little of Rostand's panache slips in and out between the songs. Christopher Plummer is terrific. 7:30 at the Colonial...
...musical maintains a satisfactory pace because of Kidd's eye for stage movement and because Christopher Plummer does Rostand's lines so well. It would be far, far better to see Plummer in the original play, but as Cyrano's opponents discover, in swordfights or musicals, you take what you're stuck with...