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Working as he did with a poor play, director Elliot Silverstein achieved some excellent results. The opening performance had some rough spots and could have taken some more rehearsing. Generally speaking, it was still a finely paced and directed presentation. In the title role, Fritz Weaver, appearing for the first time with Group 20, excellently portrayed the sensitive, idealistic, impassioned, and guilt-ridden young king, damned by indecision and out of joint with his century and his inherited occupation...
Much of the praise belongs to brilliant young director Elliott Silverstein, who has taken pains with everything down to the smallest Italianate gesture of the fingers and has still preserved the overall sweep and surge of the drama's inner line...
After a dry run through, Silverstein was satisfied. Beer, however, started telling Golding to be more forceful in his rebuttals during the tutorial session. "I want them to see the Harvard undergrad as non-submissive," he explained...
With that, the first session of the Eliot tutorial scene was over. On the way back to Weld, Silverstein started worrying about WNAC-TV's remote unit. The station had promised to have it all ready to go by 3 p.m. on Saturday. Yet, it did not plan to start setting it up until 11 a.m. that same day. As he told Bennie, "Do you realize, they want to do in four hours what our men from New York plan to do in two days with the other units? How can they possibly hope to be finished on time...
...Weld, Silverstein showed Lewis the way he planned to do the tutorial scene. Lewis said he liked it. A few minutes later, just after 5 p.m., one girl said, "No more problems. We're shut for the night." Naturally, she was joking. Numerous script revisions still had to be made, and then the corrected versions had to be mimeographed. Also, the directors and producers still had to watch the Pudding show rehearsal at 5:30 and the Glee Club at 6:50. But both of these were relatively relaxing for all concerned. Their only purpose was to give the Omnibus...