Word: slezak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hence Fanny's merits seem largely incidental. Harold Rome provides a pleasant, sentimental score that also has lilt. As the lover's father, Ezio Pinza is vibrant and masterful, but not once does the great voice of his opera days pour forth. Walter Slezak makes an excellent merry widower; no one middle-aged has more verve, no fat man more avoirdupoise...
...another. Jo Mielziner's sets count for less than his brilliant methods of shifting them. Tamiris has devised some colorful choreography, but it is often so unlooked-for and unneeded as to seem less like a dance than a kind of dividend. Fanny is built like Actor Slezak without being nearly so light on its feet...
Fanny (Marcel Pagnol's plays Marius, Fanny and Cesar, adapted as a musical by S.N. Behrman, Josh Logan and Harold J. Rome) stars Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak, opens Nov. 4 under Logan's direction...
Unfortunately, the supporting cast is not equal to Slezak's level of acting. Replacing the original New York company, his companions betray a lack of familiarity with the lines, and worse, a tendency to overact. Admittedly most of the parts are caricatures, yet they do not deserve the heavy treatment of Paul Lipson's Henri Trochard, or the tiring gushiness of Delores Mann, the immature Ducotel daughter. Slezak's fellow convicts, played by Royal Beal and Carl Betz, seem brighter and more natural...
Somehow, My 3 Angels manages to overcome its handicaps, including a set which is left unchanged for three long acts. The play succeeds because it is Slezak's show, and for that reason, an amusing one. DENNIS E. BROWN