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...lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
...Shakespeare. The best of this season's work, however, is competitive with that of any resident troupe in North America. For Shaw fans there is a splendid if deeply conventional Candida, staged by Newton and starring the estimable Seana McKenna, formerly a jewel of Stratford, plus a novel Saint Joan that turns her trial into a modern-day government inquiry cum media event. For popular tastes there are Blithe Spirit, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and the Jule Styne musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Newton is also directing a Victorian melodrama, The Silver King, presented as a Dickensian...
This week's resurrection symphony may move tote bags but will do little to convince the skeptical of Bernstein's place in history; that's for succeeding generations to sort out. Less an American Mozart than a Saint-Saens, Bernstein was a glib, gifted musician whose ultimate worth seems today to be less than the sum of his many talents. "My time will come," said his favorite, Mahler, and it did. It may also for Lenny. But not just...
While Wall Street watches anxiously, Robert is left mourning not just the uncertain future of the company he helped to build but also the loss of its original spirit. "My father is no saint, but we were a family, strong, loyal and successful together," he said. "That's why his behavior now is so inexplicable...
Robert Goulet, the original Lancelot, plays the Richard Burton role of the nobly cuckolded Arthur, a perennial boy transmuted into a saint. At 60 and looking it -- especially when moving as if in a back brace -- Goulet is two decades too old. Patricia Kies gushes out the girl Queen's politically incorrect ignorance and submission while appearing old enough to play Hamlet's mother. As Lancelot, Steve Blanchard sounds like the voice-over from a cartoon and cavorts with an odd hip swivel, as if ready at any moment to start dancing the twist. James Valentine's doubling of Merlyn...