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...Alice Playten (nee Plotkin), 22, has emerged as one of Broadway's most felicitous singing actresses. She is best known for her role as the young bride who cooks the tumescent dumpling and muses about marshmallowed meatballs in a much remarked Alka-Seltzer commercial. She grew up-or at least to 4 ft. 10½ in.-in Brooklyn's Flatbush and in Queens. Dance classes at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School led, at the age of eleven, to a singing role in Wozzeck, a solo curtain call and a New York Times review commending the "crushing irony...
...last night, 4000 students meeting in Sargent Gymnasium voted not to leave campus in spite of the administration decision to close all dormitories by 5 p.m. Thursday. "Let's stay here and fight for the three demands." Allen Seltzer, a strike organizer, said at the meeting. The B.U. faculty voted yesterday to support the strike...
Given the unusual length of Shakespeare's play and its bewildering flux between serious and fantastic themes, director Seltzer's first task was to condense and unify the action. The whole production ultimately flounders because he and his actors cannot fabricate a larger coherency out of this diffuse material. The net result is chaotic, although somewhere in all the dense overflow of rich color and sentiment, there were elements of genuine merit...
After an eighteen year lapse, which even Seltzer's mellifluous reading of the part of Father Time cannot spare from incredibility, we are treated to the spectacle of Perdita's youthful love for Florizel, the son of Polivenes, her father's brother and amorous rival. Here the production shoots off in the direction of excess...
...discontent with Seltzer's production would surely have been heightened had I been able to muster more respect for the play itself. The Winter's Tale. despite its current vogue in literary circles, is in my opinion a seriously limited play. The princely bickering and love-feuds etched out in the first scenes invite superficial melodrama. The switch to a pastoral nexus in the middle third is abrupt enough, even without the equation between a Golden Age and the Age of Aquarius...