Sly Fox opens on Broadway


Sly Fox reviewed by the New York Times


Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Richard Dreyfuss, left, and Eric Stoltz in "Sly Fox."

Sly Fox, Larry Gelbarts adaptation of Ben Jonson's Volpone, opened on Broadway to mixed reviews. Ben Brantley says it just doesn't have the same energy that the original production had:

What's crucially missing is the anarchic energy that would carry all the dialogue — from the tasteless groaners to the neo-Jonsonian aphorisms — before it. The performances need to be drawn with the same gargoylish strokes, so that the characters all seem to swim in — and be shaped by — the same toxic waters.

Here is the production information:

SLY FOX

By Larry Gelbart; directed by Arthur Penn; sets by George Jenkins and Jesse Poleshuck; costumes by Albert Wolsky; lighting by Phil Monat; sound by T. Richard Fitzgerald and Carl Casella; wigs by Paul Huntley; technical supervision, Teckeneally Inc.; fight staging, B. H. Barry; associate producers, Aaron Levy, Jill Furman, Debra Black and Peter May; production stage manager, Marybeth Abel; general manager, Peter Bogyo. Presented by Julian Schlossberg, Roy Furman, Ben Sprecher, Michael Gardner, Jim Fantaci, Cheryl Lachowicz, Christine Duncan and Nelle Nugent, by arrangement with Andrew Braunsberg. At the Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West 47th Street, Manhattan.

WITH: Richard Dreyfuss (Foxwell J. Sly/Judge), Eric Stoltz (Simon Able), Bob Dishy (Abner Truckle), René Auberjonois (Jethro Crouch), Bronson Pinchot (Lawyer Craven), Rachel York (Miss Fancy), Elizabeth Berkley (Mrs. Truckle), Professor Irwin Corey (Court Clerk), Nick Wyman (Captain Crouch) and Peter Scolari (Chief of Police).

Posted: Fri - April 2, 2004 at 07:21 PM          

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