Word: carousels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sander's spring 1995 collection, wrote Women's Wear Daily, "showed Milan how women should dress -- with subtlety and elegance." Unlike so many other designers (including Jean-Paul Gaultier, who staged his latest show amid carousel horses and a pet rat), Sander does not approach fashion as performance art. In Milan, on an unadorned runway, she presented quiet, knee- length dresses that were refreshingly unclingy, soft jackets and billowing pants in glimmering cottons, a faint blue A-line suit so purely sophisticated that it is something Catherine Deneuve could have worn...
...weeks ago, MICHAEL HAYDEN, star of Broadway's current CAROUSEL revival, fell ill with a strained voice. Alas, his understudy had a bronchial infection. Rather than cancel the show indefinitely, producers turned to MARCUS LOVETT, who was winding up a stint as the lead in the long-running The Phantom of the Opera. Lovett had to learn Carousel in a mere two days -- and went on to critical huzzahs. Amazingly, this wasn't the first time Broadway life has imitated corny backstage melodrama...
...Theater: Carousel tarnishes Broadway's Golden...
...Carousel sentimentalizes the redemptive power of parenthood for Billy, a pettish, self-pitying idler and punk whom Hayden plays with an early-Brando sneer. Becoming a father may not make an abusive husband saintly; it often just gives him a new victim to pummel. A compelling actor, Hayden is not enough of a singer -- he loses his way rhythmically and sounds faint in the score's one modernist number, the anthemic Soliloquy ("my boy Bill"), which ends the first act. Sally Murphy is too bland to evoke sympathy as Billy's doormat of a wife...
...music in Carousel is lovely but corny. Anyway, the essence of a book musical is the book. Hammerstein's protege Stephen Sondheim has said even the best musicals have a life of a few decades. Carousel is proof: it's stale...