
(Clicking on a name bolded in blue will take readers to that actor or show's entry in the Playbill Vault.)
David Rounds in Herringbone
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"He played about a million different characters and sang and danced his way through this extraordinary one-man (with pianist) musical. He was brilliant." |
John Gielgud in Forty Years On
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"A satiric review and nostalgic look at English life by Alan Bennett, yet to be done in New York. Gielgud played the befuddled headmaster of a second-rate boy's school, and it was comic acting at its greatest." |
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"I happened to be at the closing night of this Noel Coward musical, and Ms. Stritch gave the most charming, wry, heartfelt and hilarious performance in a musical I have ever seen." |
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"Peter died much too young, and this incredibly touching and sensitive performance was one of his finest." |
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"Anne Bancroft was ill, and they announced that her understudy would be going on. Lots of groans and departures. Then Ms. Caldwell came on and tore up the stage. I could not believe how great this 'unknown' actress was." |
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"The first Broadway show I ever saw, and I loved her." |
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"Guinness was completely unsuited to playing the wild and drunken poet Dylan Thomas, but his performance was so delicate and plummy that it didn’t matter." |
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"She couldn't sing and, despite a lovely Charleston number, she couldn’t really dance. But this was the most charming performance I have ever seen." |
Rosemary Murphy in Any Wednesday
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"A classy, stylish performance in this light and funny play." |
Barbara Harris in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
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"She was buoyant in everything she did, but in this odd version of the Brecht/Weill opera, she bobbed above every wave." |
Phyllis Newman in Subways Are for Sleeping
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"I went to a rainy matinee. The house was half full; the entire cast was walking, sleep walking through the show. Except for Phyllis Newman whose radiant, energetic, hilarious performance as a former Beauty Queen (dressed mostly in a towel) was unforgettable." |