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...drastically changed the feel of “Todd,” including Tim Burton’s blood-soaked 2007 movie and a 2005 Broadway production, set in an insane asylum, in which the actors played their own instruments on stage. While each of these versions exaggerated the characters?? derangement and London’s grittiness, the HRDC production seeks to return to the original feel of the script. “We wanted to try to take what was there originally and showcase that,” says Jason M. Lazarcheck...
...thoughts of a thriller to rest—is caused by a stroke. Her death and life launch Docx’s intense portrait of his characters and the Russian roots that tie them all together. It is a portrait, above all, of the strength of his characters?? familial bonds, which only fully manifest themselves following Maria’s death. The fallout from her death changes the lives of her children in huge and unexpected ways, wrenching them out of their jobs and relationships.Maria’s death brings Gabriel and his sister Isabella...
...Sam—all with some literary or academic pretensions, all extremely reflective and self-obsessed—who drift through various complicated love affairs over the course of a decade or so, beginning at about 1994 and ending in early 2008. The novel alternates between the three characters?? tales, which are obliquely connected by the secondary characters who flit through all their lives. The plotlines are simple. Keith goes to Harvard, works as a moving man in his summer, becomes a political blogger, and eventually publishes a book. Mark spends most of the novel in Syracuse writing...
...Jeremy (Jude Law). Even as the focus never strays from Jeremy’s face, the camera motion along with sounds of laughter and chatter create the atmosphere of a busy restaurant. Later in the film, when Jeremy kisses Lizzie as she lies sleeping on the bar, Wong uses characters?? movement to create a moment of dreamlike hesitancy. Wong frequently accompanies variations in film speed with music that drowns out any other sound effect. Although at times these sequences make the film seem almost like an extended music video, it is enjoyable for any fan of artists such...
...basis of many comic one-liners). The first part focused on the plights of Jewish immigrants to the United States, while the second was set in a vaudeville Yiddish theatre. The wandering plotlines, however, left the viewer confused. In the first act, for example, the link between the different characters?? stories was only revealed at the end, and in the second, only the scenery informed viewers as to the vaudevillian setting. It was the humor in the show’s 22 Yiddish songs and the sketches that carried the production, even if the grand finale?...