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This year, Vic Russo of Yale will have an equally tough time choosing among the opposing performers; it seemed that almost everybody had a field day against the last-place Elis...
...Harvard] has got good hockey players," said Yale coach Vic Russo. "We played about as well as we could play...
...London of 1988, whose coarse argot has been chosen by Director Jonathan Miller to lend contemporary clout. The melange of cultures does not always work, although much else does in this hurtling two-hour, no- intermission staging. Yet Miller's production, which opened last week at London's Old Vic Theater, is an event of considerably broader consequence than a re-examination of an austere and little-produced play by one of the theater's ablest and most innovative directors...
...Vic for decades housed a company that emphasized Shakespeare and included some of the great British stage names of the 20th century: Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness and Ashcroft among them. Then, from 1963 to 1976, it served as the first home of Britain's National Theater. Thereafter it declined into a mere booking hall, just another space where a producer might launch a commercial production. Now Miller and the theater's owners, Toronto Businessman Ed Mirvish, 73, and his son David, 43, are seeking to bring back the glory days of the classics. Their goal: a commercial troupe to rival...
...hoping to do what we have over decades of owning the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto -- build a subscription audience that trusts us. We see the first year as an investment." Whatever its eventual fate -- and however long the notoriously mercurial Miller stays with it -- the new Old Vic seems likely, on the basis of its inaugural season, to enrich the scene in London and perhaps beyond...