Jake (the mighty actor and singer David St. Louis) is called on to protect Violet and Daisy Hilton (Erin Davie and Emily Padgett, respectively), conjoined twins who are the star attractions in a carny sideshow run by the oily Sir (Robert Joy), in the late nineteen-twenties.
As Jake in "Side Show" (at the St. James), the mighty actor and singer David St . Louisfeels protective of Violet and Daisy Hilton (the beautifully cast and tender Erin Davie and Emily Padgett), conjoined twins who are the star attractions in a carny spectacle run by the oily Sir (Robert Joy).
ARTS The current London theater season offers a chance to see some mighty actors up close.
He leaves his mighty actors to act in a void, unguided, unmoored, and unchallenged, with no irritation or countercurrent to spark surprise.
But Rourke is clearly in a line of succession from Dean, Brando and Sean Penn (mighty actors, to be sure) who have us worrying about them more than the parts they play.
In these pages a few months ago, Joe Queenan saluted the mighty Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, unsung hero of countless historical blockbusters.
And she has plastered another cell with nude photographs of the mighty German actor Clemens Schick, pin-ups for a gay prison that could never have existed and a reminder (under the crafty eye of Bosie, whose portrait appears like a punctuation mark) of the reason Wilde was jeered as he waited in prison uniform at Clapham Junction for the prison train to Reading.
But what a mighty performance the actor gives us here; it's the best he's been in years.
Formed in 1967, the mighty Level were actor and singer Liz Seneff (vocals, tambourine - formerly of ultra-folkie Dave Guard's Whiskeyhill Singers), Michael Lobel (guitar, flute), Lenny Roberts (vocals, guitar - could he be the same LR who would go on to produce Cher?), and Al Dana (vocals, bass and sitar - formerly of the MGM Records Garrett Brownn / Al Dana folk duo).
It stars the New Wave icon Michel Piccoli (from Godard's "Contempt") as an elderly actor of mighty talent and firm principle who — confronting personal tragedy, flagging strength, and rebarbative new working conditions — decides, Candide-style, to cultivate his own garden.
Still, for four seasons on the field, they co-existed well, Johnson providing offensive explosion while Chrebet played best supporting actor, a mighty mite who dominated the underneath passing lanes.
