Word: schickel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandly impose, McKellen is merely admitting the secret all good actors share: even the greatest play is best approached as an excuse for child's play, where the meaning hides, the actor seeks, and the only potential winners are the audience. Like those at Acting Shakespeare. -By Richard Schickel...
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...much else in an entrancing entertainment show that only looks small and simple, it succeeds in making you feel good without making you feel stupid. That is a rare quality in an up number. It is an even rarer quality in the musical theater of the moment. -By Richard Schickel...
...down just short of the point at which she would have attained that truly amazing state of grace where she would have become a suitable speaker for fund raisers in the Hamptons or Beverly Hills. The humblest among us deserves a better apotheosis than that. -By Richard Schickel...