Word: singed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These two performances make Deborah Jean Templin's Desiree look very good by comparison. Templin, who plays an actress who is always on and the director of the matrimonial musical chairs, has life, presence and a wardrobe of elegant costumes. She can also sing--not as stunningly, perhaps, as one might wish, but well enough to convey the poignant irony of the show's finest song, "Send in the Clowns." In her case, a stronger directorial hand would surely have added luster to an already adequate performance...
...stepmother, and of Caroline Jones, who is genuinely sympathetic as the Countess Charlotte Malcolm. If Charlotte's husband Carl Magnus (Nick Littlefield) is somewhat wooden, his stiffness is forgivable on two counts: first, he is, after all, no more than a "tin soldier," and secondly, he can sing. In this show, that is no small boon. On the other hand, Bonny Fay Landers's Madame Armfeldt, Desiree's mother, is too much crotchetiness and not enough whimsy...
...member of the foursome (Ned Sherrin) acts as a kind of M.C. and spins off topical jests with the aplomb of Johnny Carson. The other three-Millicent Martin, Julie N. McKenzie and David Kernan-sing 31 full songs with style, relish and a neat change of pace. Uniformly responsive, the opening-night house came to a roar on at least three numbers. Millicent Martin brings the granitic grit of survival to I'm Still Here (Follies); Julie N. McKenzie belts out Another Hundred People (Company) like a trip hammer; and David Kernan joins the two women for a satirical...
...biggest disappointment is Reginald (Paul Jackel). In many ways, this role is the juiciest in the operetta; as a fleshly man who merely feigns ethereality, Reginald is the butt of most of Gilbert's jokes, and as the frustrated lover of the simple maiden Patience, he gets to sing many of his funniest lyrics. Jackel is far from incompetent: he has a loud, if not operatic, voice, ample stage presence and a talent for looking discomfited...
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