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Theater Review: a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 2 hours, 46 minutes ago Add Arts/Stage - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Ray Bennett LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - A shaggy dog story needs a captivating storyteller if it's not to founder, and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is the shaggiest The beautiful Sheen best captures the sardonic humor in Sondheim's typically clever lyrics, singing "Lovely" with a gorgeous blankness as if the job of being simply smashing was the absolutely best job in the world With book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, it's a knockabout farce in the vaudeville tradition verging on British panto Vince Leigh makes an appealing Hero, whose desire for the luscious virgin Philia (Caroline Sheen) complicates the lust of every other man who wants her, including Senex and the bombastic warrior Miles Gloriosus, played with splendid swagger by Philip Quast It needs a Zero Mostel or a Frankie Howerd, who starred in earlier productions on Broadway and the West End, respectively The gags are performed with a likable nudge-nudge wink-wink, and only toward the end of its two hours does the absence of a real clown begin to slow the show down It's not his fault that he lacks the spark of comic genius that would set the show alight and hold the whole thing together The troupe of dancers and singers who play the Proteans and courtesans -- who have provocative names like Panacea, Gymnasia and Vibrata -- all are lithe and talented and enter gleefully into the playfully sexy spirit of things Desmond Barrit, who plays the show's ringmaster, a slave named Pseudolus, is a thoroughly accomplished actor, and he doesn't put a foot wrong Presented by the National Theater Cast: Pseudolus: Desmond Barrit; Senex: Sam Kelly; Domina: Isla Blair; Hero: Vince Leigh; Hysterium: Hamish McColl; Lycus: David Schneider; Philia: Caroline Sheen; Tintinabula: Jane Fowler; Panacea: Lorraine Stewart; The Geminae: Simone De La Rue, Hayler Newton; Vibrata: Michelle Lukes; Gymnasia: Tiffany Graves; Erronius: Harry Towb; Miles Gloriosus: Philip Quast; Imperious: Alan Leith; Oscillatiae: Owain Rhys Davies, Sarah O'Gleby, Spencer Soloman; The Proteans: Darren Carnall, Peter Caulfield, David Lucas, Graham MacDuff, Michael Rouse, Matthew Wolfenden It's left to an energetic ensemble of veterans to deliver on the opening number's promise of "Comedy Tonight!" Sam Kelly as Senex, the henpecked husband looking for a last fling; Hamish McColl as the slave Hysterium; and David Schneider as Lycus, the buyer and seller of courtesans, all bring energy and flair to their performances and keep the laughter flowing Book: Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart; Music/lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; Director: Edward Hall; Choreographer: Rob Ashford; Set designer: Julian Crouch; Costume designer: Kevin Pollard; Orchestrations: Michael Starobin; Music supervisor/MD/dance arranger: Martin Lowe; Lighting designer: Paul Anderson; Sound designer: Paul Groothuis Still, there's enough crowd-pleasing fun to keep audiences happy between the National's more serious offerings Director Edward Hall has done a terrific job of staging what amounts to a French farce in Roman dress full of randy old men and delectable young women and driven by jokes as old as the Colosseum Reuters/Hollywood Reporter To make it a complete success, however, it needs at its center a comic wizard who can make all the shaggy old jokes zing again It's a swiftly paced romp stuffed with leering gags, salacious posing and silly pratfalls, and the National does its usual excellent job of making everything work around the edges Some are, but they would be better off read in order to savor the rich detail that Garganus' book provides Director Don Scardino's straightforward direction plops the star down center stage and she rarely moves, adding to the static nature of the piece This one-woman show, which opened Monday at Broadway's Longacre Theatre, is a meandering memory play, delivered by Ellen Burstyn in a quaint, folksy manner that suggests a Norman Rockwell portrait by way of a kinder, gentler Granny Clampett It was the Civil War â€â€? more than his marriage or anything else â€â€? that defined Willie's life Yet Willie had other demons, too: Castalia, a one-time slave, a proud, defiant woman, who stayed on after the war to work for Willie and who forged a strange bond with the woman he married For much of the play, Lucy tells the story of her husband who was 13 when he joined the Confederate army as it marched through his small North Carolina town and carried him off to war Unfortunately, it's one that gets relived rather laboriously in "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," a stodgy stage adaptation by Martin Tahse of Allan Gurganus' lengthy, best-selling novel It doesn't help either that the nursing-home decor by Allen Moyer is depressingly realistic "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" may give you a mess of vivid details, but Lucy and the parade of people she encountered never really come to life at all Review: 'Widow' Makes Stodgy Impression Nov 17, 9:51 PM EST Mercy, 99-year-old Lucy Marsden goes on and on and on Willie Marsden Burstyn, wearing ringlets of white curls, looks far too young for this ancient, flinty woman and her sunny, almost radiant smile often seems at odds with the essentially sour tale of a marriage endured rather than cherished And, boy, does she have a lot of stories, beginning with her marriage at age 15 to a 50-year-old Civil War veteran, Capt It was a union born out of ignorance on her part, although she eventually had eight children â€â€? mostly, it seems, out of duty than anything else "Not to brag, folks, but stories only happen to the people who can tell them," says Lucy at the beginning of the evening as she sits in a nursing home ominously called Lane's End and chats with an unseen audience The war also haunted him, particularly the death of his best friend, Ned, killed by a Yankee soldier while the lad frolicked in a Virginia swimming hole It's not that these stories aren't interesting Not that you hear a lot about them, except for the one accidentally blinded by his father in a shooting accident The actress also has a difficult time with the various accents â€â€? from slave to soldier to Willie to Lucy And then there was Willie's mother, a fragile creature, nearly done in by Union troops when they torched the family plantation His longevity gave him a notoriety that his turbulent domestic life didn't Well, the woman has had quite a life |
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