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...more often than bright, and Cyril Ritchard's direction is often as agitated as it is agile. The cast works hard for its laughs, but it does get them. Tammy Grimes chirps and wiggles saucily, although she suggests a visiting British cutup rather than a Parisian cocotte. Cecil Beaton's settings are like a brilliant tropical aquarium with a lavish flora of swirling, colorful gowns and hats...
Webster Lithgow, whose arrangement of the bare stage for Six Characters was unobtrusively correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siecle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fin de siecle sets and costumes (TIME...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette, larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siècle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...