Word: unevennesses
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...were all looking forward to this performance by supposedly mature, well-reputed musicians. At last someone would breathe life into it. But Daniel Troob's solo work was worse than amateur: it was unmusical. His percussive left hand rendered the right barely audible, and his playing was uneven, unphrased, overpedalled and sloppy...
Till then, Suliotis' performance had been uneven: ravishing in some spots, somewhat ravaging in others. As the second act got under way, her vocal lines became tangled with Soprano Nancy Tatum's in a tricky cabaletta, Si, fino all'ore, estreme; she reached for a high C, missed, and hid her face behind her arm in chagrin. A sour chorus of boos accompanied her exit. Suddenly, in the middle of the act, the lights went up again and the orchestra filed offstage, leaving the audience murmuring in confusion. Suliotis had asked for an unscheduled intermission in order...
...seems to have trouble with timing and spatial relationships. The editing is uneven, especially in the boxing and the road-tarring scenes. Rosenberg's camera records too much excitement from too many angles. What could have been classic sequences are reduced to patchworks of confusion. The screenplay, by Donn Pearce and Frank R. Pierson, based on Pearce's novel, is highly successful. There is no failure to communicate here...
...Farrow's Belinda suffered mainly from plot problems. With admirable poise and much mercurial hand acting, she found her redemption in sign language and education, and in love for her illegitimate child. Trouble was that all the uneven edges of the story-two murders and a court trial-had to be wrapped up in the last 30 minutes...
Technically, too, the production was uneven. Randall Darwall's sets were pleasant enough to look at, but they filled the stage, forcing the action, especially in the second act, into an unsuitably small area. The late Lewis H. Smith supplied excellent costumes, though some of the women were wearing fabrics too lavish or bright for their station. The makeup, like the lighting, was unfortunately slap-dash...