Word: adaptationitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The film adaptation of Hello, Dolly! matches Herman's contribution. Michael Crawford playing the young clerk, Cornelius Hackl, self-consciously recalls Stan Laurel. As Horace Vandergelder, the richest and meanest man in Yonkers, N.Y., Walter Matthau is doing Walter Matthau as he used to be in B pictures, moving...
Theatre Co, of Boston- Adaptation-Next, tow plays by Elaine May and Terrence McNally. 136 Mass. Ave. 426-6609.
The play ran in London and New York until 1964 when Miller left it to direct several BBC productions, in-clouding "Alice in Wonderland," a modern adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic. "I tried to portray the feeling of a Victorian childhood in it," he said "I wanted a Wordsworthian...
Cactus Flower answers one of the less pressing but more engaging questions facing America today: Can Laugh-In's Goldie Hawn really act? Yes, she can, and so can Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman. With that kind of cast, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue could serve as a script, and...
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS. Despite the talent and voice of Petula Clark, this adaptation of James Hilton's classic falls flat as a musical. But Peter O'Toole, as the beloved Mr. Chipping, gives one of the most subtle performances of his career.