Word: cleavant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cleavant Derricks, who won a Tony in the show-business musical Dreamgirls, finds a kind of heroism as Big Deal's hapless gang leader, a onetime boxer who keeps getting knocked down by life and rising to scrabble anew. His Dreamgirls partner Loretta Devine brings off an almost impossible mix as a housemaid duped into abetting the robbery: she is sexy, touchingly innocent, screamingly funny and, perhaps most astonishing in a feminist era, inoffensively but decisively dumb...
...galvanic as Holliday is Cleavant Derricks as a slam-bang comic belter sadly beached by new musical tides. A superb choreographer, Bennett is surprisingly skimpy on dances. Only one number, Steppin ' to the Bad Side, fully displays his stylish percussive mastery. But then, the entire evening marches to his drumming beat...
| 1 |