Word: scapino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This fall's Loeb schedule looks promising: George Bernard Shaw's Candida coming up in late October, and Scapino, an adaptation of a play by Molier, and Oklahoma!, directed by Andy Cadiff, who has been trying for years to make the corny musical into an art form...
...SCAPINO. The incredibly nimble Jim Dale joins that select pantheon of comic agility, men like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, who clowned in flawless body English...
...director, Frank Dunlop, who has already enhanced the year with the laugh-strewn Scapino, seems incapable of an error in pace, tone, stance or phrasing. He is a meticulous sculptor of actorscape-the distance, closeness, stillness and motion with which players relate to one another onstage. This company is not called the Royal Shakespeare for nothing: to the last man, woman and prop, it is most royal. ·T.E.K...
...there he perfected his tumbledown, knockabout maneuvers. "Falling is an art," he says. "It's a matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will take the fall best. Otherwise you smash yourself badly." In fact, he has. In a London repertory performance of Scapino last year, he missed his Tarzan-like lunge for the rope and broke his heel. For the next few performances he played the show in a leg cast and a wheelchair. "Just like a joust," he recalls fondly...
...father of four. "My wife Tricia, she's the oldest. The children are Belinda, 16, Murray, 14, Adam, 12, and Toby, who will be 10 this year if we let him." Because of his family, Dale is undecided about the onslaught of American offers since his Scapino triumph. "I am very selfish about family," he says. "I have only another few years until the children leave." Then, too, Director Dunlop is talking about a possible Jim Dale Henry...