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Strangely enough, Wait Until Dark is one of the few plays that actually works better as a film. Just ask Quentin Tarantino--this summer, he starred in a miserably static Broadway production of the play that paled in comparison to the genuinely frightening 1967 film starring Audrey Hepburn. In addition to its complex roles, which require subtle yet stead-fast interpretation, it is an immensely technical production filled with lighting and staging tricks that require consistently perfect timing. Thus, when the Adams House Drama Society announced that it was staging Wait Until Dark in the claustrophobic Pool Theater, eyebrows were...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alone in the 'Dark' | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...deal with the most under-written part of Frederick Knott's stage play. Because Rote's cold-blooded instincts are reigned in for so much of the play and only occasionally burst into flame, the trick is to maintain consistency without flattening the role (Tarantino, in his Broadway role, completely overplayed the part, turning Rote into a caricature doomed from the outset). Monteleoni makes Rote a smarmy, slinky villain--an interpretation which occasionally becomes awkward but ultimately gels. He explodes in the final scenes with Suzy in the dark, convincing us that he has no mercy for the helpless woman...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alone in the 'Dark' | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...select and their approaches to performing them. This Guys and Dolls isn't new or intellectual or re-interpreted in any challenging way, but it's fun. The show's very traditional aims (namely, to please) make it a rarity here, though less so in the commercial world of Broadway...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Bringing Broadway to the Pudding | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...Brian C. Lalime of 8 Eric Rd., Brighton, Bran P. McCarthy of 343 Broadway, cambridge, and Shane P. Russell of 19 Wright Ave., Medford, were arrested at the Harvard Square kiosk for drinking in public and possession with intent to distribute and distribution of a "Class B" substance...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...Highlights: he sold an icebox to an Eskimo on behalf of the American Ice Manufacturers Association. He personally hatched an ostrich egg by sitting on it for 19 days, 4 hrs. and 32 min., on behalf of the 1947 movie The Egg and I. For producer David Merrick, whose Broadway show The Matchmaker needed a little extra coverage, he dressed an orangutan in a chauffeur's suit and set the creature at the wheel of a specially rigged taxi. With Moran steering from the back, the two set off down Broadway with the legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy And In Charge | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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