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...SUPERMAN. Performed with deceptive ease, superb acting finesse and unfaltering intelligence, this A.P.A.-at-the-Phoenix revival of one of Shaw's masterworks is the sort of tribute that only finely honed talent can pay to acknowledged genius...
...Child Buyer. When G. B. Shaw wrote Man and Superman, he preached the intensive cultivation of man's brain as the crowning end of man. The Child Buyer, adapted by Paul Shyre from John Hersey's novel, sees the sedulously cultivated brain as man's perdition. But any resemblance between Shaw and Shyre-Hersey is only thematic. The Shaw comedy is still full of Mozartean eloquence, gusto and grace; the Shyre-Hersey play drones along with tongue-clattering one-note monotony...
...SUPERMAN. Performed with deceptive ease, superb acting finesse, and unfaltering intelligence, this APA-at-the-Phoenix revival of one of Shaw's masterworks is the sort of tribute that only finely polished talent can pay to acknowledged genius...
...Phoenix Theater that is everything the Lincoln Center group might aspire to be. Called the Association of Producing Artists, it germinated as a professional acting company touring the provinces, now alternates between the University of Michigan and Manhattan. Its current production of Shaw's Man and Superman is exquisitely performed, brilliantly thought out, and acted with a thoroughgoing ensemble spirit. A.P.A. took five years to reach its present perfection; Lincoln Center apparently expected its own repertory company to rise full-grown like Athena from the brow of Zeus...
Michael Grost was pretty downcast. His parents had promised him ten Superman comic books if he got an A in school. Instead, he got only a B+ and five comics. But Mike's parents were delighted, for the course was Contemporary History of Europe and Asia, and the school Michigan State University. Mike is ten. As a special-status student at M.S.U. last year, the Lansing prodigy scored an A-average while amassing 38 credits in math, humanities, history and science...