Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most memorable characters of the entire show, however, has to be Neale's Lulu. Although Lulu herself spends most of the play looking forlorn in the background of the stage, her few lines--a deft mixture of church-revival-type monologues and cute childish comments--almost speak for themselves. The strength and sweet simplicity Neale lends to the character make one almost believe that this over-sexed, yet helpless-looking character may very well save everyone in the show...
None of this fazes Taymor. "I told them I wanted to go for elegance, not cute," she says. "The Lion King is a very commercial work, but what they've let me do is very experimental. I was totally delighted and surprised." Tom Schumacher, Disney's executive vice president of theatrical productions, first encountered Taymor when he was a producer for the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival, where he hoped to put on a musical she had co-written. That didn't work out, but a decade later--after Taymor had won acclaim for her presentations of opera (Oedipus Rex), children...
...Main Street looks authentically cute, attracting house hunters from Wichita fleeing traffic and gangs and drive-by shootings. At the senior center, the ladies are sewing a memorial quilt made of a late father's old dress shirts. "People from large cities find it charming," says Pam Lamborn, owner of the Jackrabbit Hollow Bookstore, gazing up at a pretty frieze of stylized Kansas sunflowers running across the top of the bowling alley. "But you know what's going to happen? The small towns are going to become the big cities all over again." Already nostalgia may have been oversold...
...work of Tony Orlando and Dawn. Early in her book about the ways in which American society still fails to indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor he doesn't know--as an example of how teenage girls in the 1960s and '70s were taught to be blank images rather than real people. Never mind that the era gave rise to a slew of empowering female singer-songwriters; in Wolf's distorted algebra Tony Orlando cancels...
Kate is an especially well-drawn character, neither cute nor tragic, believable as eight. As the pilgrimage falls apart, she yearns for solidity: her father, if possible, or the Grand Canyon, to which he promised to take her, and where the name of a layer of rock, Bright Angel Shale, has caught her imagination. Eventually she gets there...