Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...icing on the cake, Pierrot was not necessarily the right flavor (anise), but take heart: there are two more concerts to come. The Cantabrigia Orchestra has its ambitious debut Thursday night, followed by the Summer School Chorus' splash the following week. Then it will be time to talk of cabbages and lings...
...Kelly deplores the common U.S. image of the dancer as a mincing she-man. When he first began dancing in nightclubs in the Pittsburgh area, ringside drunks would snigger "Hello, honey." One night he slugged one of the loudmouths and hotfooted it to Manhattan. He prepped as a Broadway chorus boy, "feeding grimaces to Mary Martin" in 1937, three years later won the lead in Pal Joey and a one-way ticket to Hollywood...
...star of the film is clearly the chorus; and the whole production seems to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sing beautifully together and are right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, is unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert is the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapts most effectively the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...finest portion of the film is the last. For this much of the credit goes to the marvelous chorus of avenging Furies, whose frightening makeup, snakepit writhings and almost surrealistic dancing are worthy even of Dante's Inferno. The play itself is a real suspense thriller, with the outcome in doubt. It builds up to the theatre's first trial by jury, a device that is still proving useful to dramatists 2500 years later...
...cast plays all the complicated parts, with all the stops pulled out, with astonishing insight and energy. We always know where each character stands, exactly what the chorus feels. Joan Tolentino and William Bramhall play a heart-rending scene that leaves no doubt about the horror of execution; later, in a living newspaper scene, the chorus takes hysterical delight in an execution. Both times we are strongly affected because both times the actors' pjositions are deeply clear. In a universally good cast, Dan Deitch stands out for his droll performance of a machine-like soldier, and Mardee Kravit...