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But that one features a song that goes Whom do I love?
Look at me and guess whomI love.
So lets say there is still room for someone to do it right.
(The two are married.)
(I wrote down like God, write a bridge!
at one point, after a ballad had insisted on the same five notes for several minutes.)
Theres also a too homogeneous flavor to the book itself.
But Schmidt the director and conceiver both also updates and trims.
(Tom Broecker did the charming costumes.)
But she does also drain the play of much of its variation and effervescence.
There are still a few references to it.
What woman could love me with this nose?
But who is Cyrano without his honker, his coat hook, his schnoz?
No nose equals fewer jokes.
Dinklage is the right man for the job, though.
Rueful and comic when he needs to be; hes a swashbuckling soul in pain for the rest.
What … wigs is he talking about?
And his big duet features this line: Cuz every time I see you Im overcome.
Itd make you laugh to think someone like me could keep someone like you.
Were a long way fromAlexandrines.
Perhaps if you take a fragment and explode it, you might find theCyranoyoure looking for.
So although the whole becomes repetitive, youll find much to delight in atCyrano.
There just needs to be more energy in their leap between one kind of music and another.
(I amstillhung up on those damn wigs.)
ButCyranois a play about carefully attending to words.
You cant insist that were hearing poetry and give us Im so dumb instead.
We can tell when were being palmed off with doggerel.
Its as plain as well, you know.
Cyranois at the Daryl Roth Theatre through December 22.
