Word: williamsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...
...catches fire is a scene in which father and daughter (Penny Fuller) match warring wills like burnished swords. Fuller also plays Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn. As Anne, Fuller is a mettlesome enchantress who makes Henry's furious desire under standable. Singing in a warmly melodious baritone, Williamson enhances his tenderest moments in the show...
...dances, choreographed by Dania Krupska, are derivative and few. Since Nicol Williamson is one of the acting comets of the age, other shows will doubtless bring him to other kings...
...Nicol Williamson stars in this new Richard Rodgers musical about Henry VIII. Rodgers is getting old, sources say-all his songs are beginning to sound alike. At the Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., through April 10. Performances Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday...
Harvard's eight million books, Williamson explained, comprise the largest university library in the world; Schmidt pointed to Lamont, and, by way of translation, called it "la libraire la plus grande du monde...