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APPLAUSE interrupts dialogue from Private Lives more than 20m times, but the cheers, giggles and whistles don't necessary follow Noel Coward's lines. Instead, the audience listens to Elyot Chase (Richard Burton) ask Amanda (Elizabeth Taylor), his ex-wife whether she thinks they'll ever marry each other again. "I don't know, "Taylor drawls, as the audience grows increasingly expectant, "Marriage scares me really...
...NOEL COWARD, however, belongs anywhere but in People. His plays combine wry, sophisticated wit, elegant characters and light, measured farce. Coward relies on the English language--not only what words express clearly and openly, but also what they hide and subtly suggest. A line as unpromising as "don't quibble. Sybil" conveys much with its brevity, sound and the actor's accompanying expressions and pauses...
...Katryn Walker), she to Victor Prynne (John Cullum). Embarrassingly enough, both couples honeymoon in Deauville. Worse yet, their respective suites share a balcony. But Elyot is as unsuited for the flighty, girlish Sybil as Amanda is for the formal, gentlemanly Victor. While Amanda and Elyot rediscover their old love. Coward argues, always humorously, that passion often blends both tenderness and hostility. And the tender and hostile moments in the Private Lives mark the play's most charming and comically effective scenes...
...able to "get over" the fun of watching Taylor and Burton on stage, either in person, or on the screen. Television's ubiquitous Entertainment Tonight was at a recent performance, filming highlights, ready to scoop People magazine with a story on Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's--rather, Noel Coward's--Private Lives...
...some productions that happens frequently. Rock Star Andy Gibb, for instance, was eventually fired from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat after missing twelve performances in little more than a month; George C. Scott failed to appear twelve times last year during the six-month run of Noel Coward's Present Laughter; and Frank Langella missed 28 performances during his half year in Amadeus. On any given night, several of the felines in Cats may be substitutes. By contrast, the indestructible Marian Seldes was never out once during 1,793 performances of Deathtrap, and except for vacations, those three...