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Performers Betty McNally (Mrs. Stockmann), Jim Caudle (Dr. Stockmann), and Colette Auerswald (Petra Stockmann), each fall prey to a common inconsistency--switching indiscriminately from stereotypes to realism, not having developed the characters sufficiently to manage such a switch. Will Johnston (Captain Horster), Erik Corwin (Morten Kitty), and Roger Rignack (Aslaksen), however, are not inconsistent. They simply choose to not develop their characters--period...
Most scene changes follow a simple blackout-and-switch-the scenery-around scramble which soon becomes a bit too bouncy for comfort. The massive and ambitious vocal climaxes--such as an attempted coordination of offstage and onstage choruses--lead to moments of towering brilliance and intervals of embarrassing chaos in about equal proportion...
...burst into perfunctory applause. Onlookers in the gallery turned to each other to make sure they had heard the word "Presidium" rather than "presidency." They had. Andropov had been nominated for the 40-member ruling Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, but not as its President. Then, as if a switch had been thrown, all 1,500 delegates raised their hands in unanimous approval. For the moment Andropov would do without Brezhnev's second title...
...there is still something to say for a house that is firmly planted in the ground. Nice as their mobile home has been in the economic pinch, Janice Bronson, for one, would welcome the switch. Says she: "This one does not have a sense of permanence. For one thing, when I run a load of wash, I can't have a record playing; the whole house shakes...
Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, whose bottling plants in the U.S.S.R. have been quenching Russian thirst since the Nixon years, contended that Reagan's on-and-off "light-switch commercial policy" branded the U.S. an unreliable supplier. Still, 15 more plants to bottle Pepsi will be uncapped soon. General Electric and Dresser Industries, two companies that would have been stung badly if the pipeline sanctions had gone on, now will be able to deliver their goods...