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...caught the real Beverly Sills [Nov. 22]. She can send sparks up your spine with that incredible voice. For those spectacular talents, most of us would accept an amalgam of megalomania, immorality, the frizzles and flat feet; but happily we don't have to. To experience a Sills performance is to revel in her joyous nature, her exuberance, her graciousness and that leavening of mischief. Sills is summer ir full bloom...
...True Amalgam. An evening at City Opera does not alway glitter with great singing stars, although in Bass Norman Treigland and Soprano Sills the company possesses two of the finest voices in the world. But Rudel's shows are rarely dull. Because he believes that "open should be a true amalgam of the visual and musical," he was steering City Opera toward total theater long before the term became fashionable. He hired such experienced directors as Frank Corsaro and Tito Capobianco, and gave then free dramatic rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became...
...music does not outdo the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Ray Charles, Prokofiev, Orff, Richard Strauss or any other of the influences to be found in it. But it does fuse those elements into a new kind of thespic amalgam that has high dramatic point, melodic joy, and rarity of rarities, wit. Tim Rice's lyrics occasionally turn mundane in the otherwise commendable effort to speak in contemporary terms, but his psychologically aware variations on the Gospels are often adroitly arresting. Already beginning to doubt the steadfastness of his friends, Christ tells the Disciples at the Last Supper...
...just gone through the cerebral trip, and now the swing is back to the supernatural consciousness, where things have to be felt." Not everyone agrees, of course, that O'Horgan touches the feelings. To many, his plays are not so much moving as in perpetual motion ?an amalgam of group therapy, Max Reinhardt and kindergarten recess...
...Misfire. The camera cannot confront a grown Caucasian without making him a rapacious stock villain, nor can it present the savage as anything but an improbably heroic amalgam of Friday, Chingachgook and St. Francis. A pity. The cast are an attractive lot and, as some lyrically nude bathing scenes demonstrate, Miss Agutter possesses one of the lithest, blithest young bodies on public view. Were the eye the only judge, Walkabout might be considered a treat. But no, Roeg and his scenarist Edward Bond (BlowUp) aim for the mind and miss wildly. Their preachy, anti-intellectual Natural Mannerisms are neither convincing...