Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decimating Broadway casts. Jane Morgan in the title role and eight other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became so ill that he fell off the stage, and since his understudy was ill, the stage manager had to pinch-hit. At the Metropolitan Opera, John Alexander had to give up after two acts of La Sonnambula. And in Philharmonic Hall, Pianist Jose Echaniz could not even make it past intermission...
...Jimmy Shine goes, Playwright Schisgal (Luv, The Typist, The Tiger) is very lucky to have Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality working for him. Hoffman takes thimblefuls of humor, absurdity, poignance, honesty, desire and passion and drains them as if they were foaming crystal goblets of dramatic life...
...kind of cool, well-finessed stunting with which a clever boy might regale a proud mother. As such, it is always audience-conscious rather than play-and co-player-oriented, the last two again being the marks of a fine actor as opposed to a stage personality...
This will be the first meet for most of the fencers. The team has had very little experience, Coach Edo Marion said yesterday, and is still at a beginning stage...
...something of a disappointment as Rose Maybud, a characteristically Gilbertain example of innocent rural lust. Her singing voice is pleasant enough, but she walks through her lines, apparently baffled by the splendid prop she carries, a book of etiquette. Of all the cast she might have benefited most from stage direction...