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...premise hold water, Playwright Krasna (Dear Ruth, John Loves Mary) gets his fun out of the way it leaks. The laughs come also because Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, and most particularly Ray Walston make a nimble trio as the husband, the wife and the fixer; while Rouben Ter-Arutunian provides a sequence of ingenious sets...
Adapter William Nichols conceived of the TV version as fantasy-all a dream of Feste the clown-set in the rococo grandeur of an 18th century pleasure park. For scenery and costumes, Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian borrowed brilliantly from the delicate woodland scenes of Watteau and Fragonard, gave the NBC color cameras an enchanting palette of shimmering pastels. Through a dream world as mannered as a minuet glided fauns, harlequins and unicorns, dwarf attendants and monkey footmen. Olivia (Frances Hyland) wooed the disguised Viola (radiantly played by Rosemary Harris) while floating in an elegant barge. When Malvolio (Maurice Evans) puffed...
...seven-story residence hall contains two of the three-floor "groupings." At ground level, below these six floors, will be faculty offices and apartments for resident faculty tutors. The Master's residence will be on the roof, with a ter- race for the adults at one end of the building, and a play area for children at the other...
...controversial with a vengeance, for co-directors John Houseman and Jack Landau have changed Shakespeare's old Sicilian locale to 19th-century Spanish-American Texas. (This is not a wholly new idea, for the Brattle Theatre production here two summers ago was laid in 19th-century Spain.) Rouben Ter-Arutunian has designed a handsome and versatile two-level residencia as well as a dazzling batch of costumes liberally provided with holsters and pistols. And Virgil Thomson has written some colorful incidental music, partly original and partly borrowed (e.g. "The Mexican Hat Dance...
...Rouben Ter-Aruntunian's costumes are stunning. And Jean Rosenthal has contrived gorgeous lighting, including the unobtrusively judicious use of a "follow spot"; the lighting is by no means realistic, but rather underlines the shifting moods of the drama. Virgil Thomson's trumpet calls and occasional tenuous sound effects add virtually nothing...