Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour de force so far is Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mart. The ballet is a cartoon of existential angst, but, leaping over bed, chair and table, Baryshnikov turns it into a young man's rage at mortality...
Baseball Cantata. U.S. concertgoers may not yet realize what they could be in for. Tired of the usual fare of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok? How about a 90-minute multimedia work based on the Krazy Kat cartoon strip? Roger Reynolds, 40, is creating such a work at the University of California at San Diego. A baseball cantata based on Casey at the Bat? Pulitizer Prizewinner William Schuman, 64, is warming that one up. There has been comparatively little pressure on composers to wave the flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight...
...movie is blank, unimaginative -think of every joke you have heard about New York over the past decade and here it is-and Bancroft cannot make much of the bits and scraps she is given. She is misdirected by Melvin Frank (A Touch of Class) to underline cartoon New York mannerisms: a threatened rasp in the voice that can easily twitch into hysteria, a battery of body movements that look like preliminaries for infantry combat...
Where the show succeeds, it seems almost accidental. In yearning to return to the freedom of the cartoon form, the costumes come into their element. Animating the entire production with her lively imagination and sense of the ridiculous, costume director Martha Burtt uses everything from Oblio's pajamas and orange velvet tails to an ingenious suit of foam boulders for Rock Man and a new-born bird outfit for Baby Pterodactyl...
...Point is simply off the mark. The attempt to dramatize a fantasy that should have remained a cartoon inevitably fails. Enchanting costumes cover up recycled thoughts and crusty choreography, and the show misses its audience by a lot more than four year...