Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem incongruous, with their Japanese baseball uniform-style costumes and their song-and-dance routines. My friend the purist says that there would have been music and dancing in the original, but I wonder if they would have resembled Yannis Arzimanoglou's melodramatic piano music or Eleni Nikolopoulou's Broadway-style choreography...
Tommy Wilhelm has lost his job, and now he seems on the verge of losing his mind. Living temporarily in a hotel on Manhattan's upper Broadway, he is surrounded by a depressing gallery of old people, among them his coldly uncaring father. The city is too hot, the elevator doors are too slow, his money is running out, and the wife whom he left but who will not give him a divorce is pestering him for support payments. Worse, a shyster doctor has talked him into squandering his piddling savings on the commodities market. "What's the matter?" asks...
...flinging himself into another chair and reclining silkily with a look of nothing having happened. The bare stage direction exists in George Bernard Shaw's text, but the moment -- and the + character judgment it reflects -- is in large part O'Toole's contribution to his literally smashing, if belated, Broadway debut at age 54, after nearly three decades of international fame and seven Oscar nominations (for films ranging from 1962's Lawrence of Arabia to 1982's My Favorite Year). On one level O'Toole is playing off public awareness of his decades-old reputation as a brawling, boozing boyo...
...safe platonic distance, while being anything but lovable. O'Toole has made a career of playing such disappointed idealists, sinning in the name of some principle. He triumphed in the role in London's West End in 1984. That production suffered, however, from a bland and uninteresting Eliza. On Broadway she is played by Tony Winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God), a ferocious comedian who can be just as exotically mannered as O'Toole. The result could easily have been a mugging contest. Instead Plummer finds in Eliza a serene dignity and natural goodness that permeate even the character...
Peter O' Toole makes a smashing Broadway debut in a showy, shrewdly judged Pygmalion. -- All My Sons is Arthur Miller at his best...