Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aronson, by Frank Rich with Lisa Aronson (Knopf; 323 pages; $75), shows why. The authors (respectively, the drama critic of the New York Times and the artist's widow) use photos and Aronson's vivid sketches and paintings to document the bulk of his more than 100 designs, including Broadway's The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies and Pacific Overtures. The authoritative text evokes the artist's crusty personality and analyzes his ability to make each project new and distinctive -- in his word, a personal "rejuvenation." Quite a few of them also...
...Save the Children billboard on Sunset Strip: "Won't someone please nominate this girl for an Oscar?" But Hunter, 29 and 5 ft. 2 in., is no late entry in the prima donna sweepstakes. She is a hardscrabble sprite from Conyers, Ga., a dues payer from off-Broadway (Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest) and off-Hollywood (Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona) whose only eccentricity, says Joel Coen, "is how easy she is to work with." She has built a boutique gallery of daft characters: nymphets and star children who swagger like cowgirls. And now she stars...
...character, always allowing Tom to find the humor in his too-rapid success, locating a dimness behind his eyes when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones. As for Hunter, she graduates with honors from off-Broadway (The Miss Firecracker Contest) and off-Hollywood (Raising Arizona) to fill the center of this demanding movie with cracker charm and elfin steel. Hail, Holly: daredevil actress...
WILLIAM Hauptman's last play at the American Repertory Theater, the musical Big River,was a Big Winner, receiving seven Tony awards for its subsequent Broadway production. Can Gillette, his new play about the drifters and desperados in a Wyoming boom town, possible do so well? Will it boom or will it bust...
...Very often the great roles require great monologues, when you're out there all alone," explains Howard, who has numerous Broadway, film, and television credits including a Tony for his performance in Child's Play. The monologue "is what sets the men from the boys" in acting. he says...