Word: soliloquys
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Many of the best parts of Joyce's book are missing. Since Strick has only 140 minutes at his disposal, he devotes most of it to the principal episodes: Stephen's soliloquy on the beach, Bloom's trip to Paddy Dignam's funeral, Bloom's brangle with the one-eyed Fenian in Kiernan's pub, Bloom's meeting with Stephen at Buck Mulligan's brawl, the nocturnal visit of Bloom and Stephen to Bella Cohen's brothel, Molly Bloom's magnificent end-spurt of soliloquacity...
...with a young Swiss woman, Martha Fleischmann, is replayed in some detail in the Bloom-Gerty McDowell episode in Ulysses. The few letters from Joyce's rakehell father have all the style and fresh idiom of Simon Dedalus in the book. And Molly Bloom's long, affirmative soliloquy comes to life in the letters of his wife, Nora-artless, rambling and totally innocent of punctuation, syntax or correct spelling...
...ailing Henry IV (Joseph Sommer) first enters clothed in rich blue, accompanied by monks singing a Kyrie (sloppily). He kneels at a priodieu and delivers his great Sleep soliloquy competently enough to make us look forward to his scene with Prince Hal. When that comes, Hal (John Cunningham) takes the hand of the sleeping king and kisses it -- a good touch. But then the director has turned the confrontation into a screaming nightmare. The king, who will be dead in a few minutes, gets out of bed, yells and lurches about like a Hercules; and Hal responds with a torrent...
...Harvard fan, happily bear-besotted, climbed onto the roof of the Navy dugout in the fifth inning and began to bellow Hamlet's "To be or not to be" Soliloquy. A Navy player retaliated by dousing him with several cups of water. The orator wobbled back to his seat and contented himself with spraying passages from Shakespeare indiscriminately at the Middics and the umpires...
...musically competent, visually disastrous production unhappily married. The suburban couple (Richard Lee and Miriam Boyer) have adequate voices, but are sorely tried by Bernstein's libretto. Only Danny Kaye could enunciate some of the convoluted lines without dragging the tempos. Those scenes, which like Leete's locker-room soliloquy were more musical comedy than opera, were the most successful...