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...Salieri, Ian McKellen is less secure than Paul Scofield, who played this role in London. He lacks Scofield's ability to make a syllable wince or engorge a phrase with acrid humor. More important, McKellen does not make Salieri's early vows of purity plausible. Thus his desired revenge against both God and Mozart verges on lago's malign spirit. No cast under Peter Hall's direction ever fails to glisten with finesse, force and impeccable timing. Jane Seymour plays Mozart's wife Constanze warmly and fetchingly. Nicholas Kepros must also be singled...
...Britons have petitioned the church to keep the 1662 book in the "mainstream of worship." Among signers: former Prime Minister Lord Home, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Historian Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, Sculptor Henry Moore, Novelist William Golding, Lord Olivier and Glenda Jackson. Actor Paul Scofield says Britons feel "dismay" over the likely loss of so much "that is deeply poetic and influential in our language...
...gesturing wildly at intermission opening night. "It's just such a great role." But Blue felt he could not reach the level of intensity he had sought, nor could he fathom the depths of Lear's psyche. So he told Sellars he could not go on. "They say Paul Scofield took ten years preparing for this role," Blue lamented. Sellars had allotted him only several weeks. Days before the scheduled opening last Tuesday, Sellars had no Lear. Pinched, he opted to play the part himself. As the program notes, "There is no replacement for Brother Blue...
Also on display is the first book printed by the New York branch, a 1909 Scofield Reference Bible (a King James Bible edited by American Evangelical Preacher Cyrus Scofield). Established in 1896, the New York press now specializes in American history and culture, including jazz and black studies. One of its bestselling works: The European Discovery of America (1971. 2 vols.) by the late Samuel Eliot Morison...
...Watching Scofield slip effortlessly from dying Volpone to robustious Fox is as fascinating as the unfolding of his intricate schemes. One minute he is the Venetian magnifico, reveling in his gold and his audacity and boasting that even "the Turk is not more sensual in his pleasures than Volpone." The next he is an old man of faltering soprano. "Oh," he says, "I am sailing to my port and I am glad I am so near my haven...