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...best lines have gone to Juliet, whose troubles are most sinister. Or at least Brittani Sonnenberg '03 makes them seem like the best lines. Coming from her role as Cecily in last semester's runaway success The Importance of Being Earnest, Sonnenberg converts the coy navet of her Wildian role to the coy hopelessness of a wrecked teenage girl. She smiles, flares or stares into space with a studied cynicism...
...opinion of the new off-Broadway musical Ernest in Love, especially in regard to the manner in which the Anne Croswell lyrics "graft smoothly onto the play as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother." Like the "superbly haughty" Lady Bracknell, the famous Wildian character who sings this number, the "superbly haughty" actress (anonymous in your review) who essays this role is indeed herself a "very proper mother." She has two entirely legitimate teen-age children to prove it. Happily her handome son Josef and lovely daughter Francine know who their father...
...Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical Gilbert & Sullivan to no Gilbert & Sullivan, the production will serve. The plot, as all should know, satirizes Oscar Wildian esthetics, which it quite drove out of business. Precious Poet Bunthorne captivates 20 lovesick maidens but not milkmaid Patience, whose true love is a simpler fellow, Poet Grosvenor. Her example sends the love-sick maidens to the arms of robust Dragoons...
...Ernest. As sodden and pale as a 10?-portion of mashed potatoes is this musical comedy adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gay farce The Importance of Being Earnest. Wildian epigrams frolic beside such lines as "My Rolls is waiting; so is my coffee." Sometimes the dancing is agreeable...
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