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Chris Reaske, as a farmer, and Thom Babe, the pastor, shone like bright alpha stars in comparison, however, and made it possible for the leads to work. Reaske's storming over the injustice he suffered in a slander case was controlled but believable; unfortunately the incident had little to do with the main plot of the play...
...That was Bob Anderson's intention in establishing the Award," Hamlin explained, "to give young talent a chance to see their work mounted. We are sure that Thom Babe's play will 'produce' very well...
Beside these two first-rate actors, the rest of Director Thom Babe's cast looks ineffectual. This is not true of the servants, Jere Whiting and Stanford Janger: Whiting is if anything too overwhelmingly ghoulish and Janger too cheerfully unaffected by his own enslavement to Hummel. But they are more than competent. The dreadful ineffectuality of this production comes in the third act, after the clashes and climaxes of the play...
...Malvolio, Thom Babe exhibits control far beyond refusing "cakes and ale." Dour and stern at the start, he convinces us that he has heard no bells at midnight; and so, when he breaks into smiles and puts on yellow stockings, the joke succeeds superbly...
...stage at once--between the songs there are, after all, an awful lot of crummy lines (the cue for "Small Talk" is that oh-so-memorable line "What's the matter, lover?"). And having come to this, I can now fling praise at Miss Cohen and at Thom Babe, the director. The big production numbers are awesome. Mr. Babe's blocking and Miss Cohen's choreography are smoothly professional, overwhelmingly competent. Their "7 1/2" has the chorus brandishing a forest of picket signs; it effectively fills every square inch of the stage, and it's snappy, loud, and boffo...