Word: catherinee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The whittled-down plot has the lovers Catherine and Heathcliff falling apart and coming back together after being seduced by the bright lights of the big city. Catherine (Julie Glucksman) leaves her home, Wuthering Heights, and the man she loves to become Madonna. She finds a new life gyrating across...
Catherine finds a perfect match for her new persona in Edgar Linton (John Vaughan), whose rousing Wham! number is an early highlight of the production. Heathcliff (Michael Allio), too, leaves Wuthering Heights and finds the stage, transforming himself from an introspective Sting to the raucous Billy Idol.
Allio makes the transition less easily than Glucksman and his Idol isn't as comfortable in front of the crowds. And while Glucksman manages to maintain a shadow of the passion of the original Catherine, Allio's Heathcliffe comes off somewhat mechanical.
The essential fantasy of the video, the lush and bounteous scenery used to recreate imagination, is thus somewhat lost. As Catherine, for example, stares out into the real live crowd, tosses back her head, sidles back and forth and purses her lips, the audience stares back at the actress against...
After trailing for part of their opening match of the round robin competition, the aquawomen came back to defeat Brown, 10-7, as Co-Captains Kelley Withy and Catherine Ysrael led the way.