|  Share | Cite  Triumph of Love  Based on the play by:Marivaux
Book:James Magruder Music:Jeffrey Stock Lyrics:Susan Birkenhead
Director:Michael Mayer Choreography:Doug Varone Sets:Heidi
Ettinger Costumes:Catherine Zuber Lighting:Paul Gallo
Sound:Brian Ronan Opened:10/97 at the Royale Theater Cast:Susan
Egan, F. Murray Abraham, Betty Buckley, Christopher Sieber,
Kevin Chamberlin, Roger Bart and Nancy Opel  Perhaps this
sagging production should be renamed “Triumph of Betty Buckley.”
The always-spectacular performer saves the show, a double-
entrendre-riddled doozy based on Marivaux's 18th century comedy.
Bringing low comedy to subterranean depths, the production draws
from the type of comedy performed by Italian commedia dell 'arte
troupes. However, Mayer and Magruder's modern-day approach lacks
any sense of clever improvisation and expressive physical comedy
intrinsic to the genre. It's the story of Spartan Princess
Leonide (Egan), who, with her maid in tow (Opel), invades the
home of Hemocrates (Abraham) and