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Directors Peter Skolnik and Dean Stolber, who also play the two Dromios, have contributed a farce-full of sight gags and slapstick, but the show simply hasn't enough substance to keep itself moving. And the lack of a single not-otherwise-occupied director probably accounts in part for the fact that some of the actors go their own inexplicable ways without much regard for the rest of the cast...
...Stolber himself makes no bones about being an upstaging ham, and sometimes he's funny at it too. But to really like him you've got to like the Art Carney type of comic (on television they're legion). Needless to say, not everybody will. Skolnik is somewhat more restrained, and when he has anything to do he does it wonderfully...
...hard to take this idea very seriously, for it is also universally admitted that Harvard doesn't offer much to those undergraduates who do come with some background. A Dean Stolber, who has been acting continuously since he was eight, or a John Lithgow, who develops unusual technical abilities by the middle of his sophomore year, is not likely to meet with the direction or the suggestions to stretch his talent. If Harvard theatre can't help the incompetent and doesn't help the competent, there is some question just who it is there...
...exactly a plot, except that a couple of people get married at the end. Every reasonable beginning of a complication gets more or less forgotten or patched up in the following scene. One entire love interest, for example, which inspires a song (a pretty nice one) that Dean Stolber sings three times in all, simply evaporates...
...program says, Dean Stolber is in a class by himself. Agreed. He sings and dances better than anyone else. But he seemed to be in a play by himself. Admittedly his character, Preston Quagmire, is a starry-eyed sort, but that's no excuse for Stolber's failure to play with the other actors. Somebody's got to pace the scenes and he should have been the one in many of them...