Word: danner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Gimbels basement. Super- rich restaurateur Nick Tattinger (Stephen Collins) returns from a stay in Europe and sets about reviving the fortunes of his eatery, fending off a developer trying to strong-arm him into selling out and attempting to smooth relations with his high-society ex-wife (Blythe Danner, one of several good actors wasted). "This town -- it just brings out the extremes in me," says Nick. And in Tattingers as well. The '80s genre of tony ensemble dramas, which started with Hill Street Blues and runs through L.A. Law, has finally crossed paths with Dynasty's low-road...
...their ability to conjure spirits. That very perception of character seems to have guided Geraldine Page in a less malevolent but equally necromantic role, the ghost-summoning Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's larkish Blithe Spirit, which was revived on Broadway last week. The cast includes Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner and Judith Ivey, all in good form, but this is Page's show. In a career including eight Oscar nominations, culminating in a 1986 Best Actress award for The Trip to Bountiful, and countless memorable stage performances, Blithe Spirit stands as a highlight...
This decidedly common touch is in keeping with Director Brian Murray's sour vision. At the center of Blithe Spirit is a love triangle: smug, conventional Ruth Condomine (Ivey) is in love with her novelist husband Charles (Chamberlain); so is hoydenish Elvira (Danner), his late wife, whom Madame Arcati accidentally materializes; and all three of the Condomines are passionately in love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when...
...creators had some smart ideas: instead of a gloomy, abandoned train siding, the gaudy set now represents a panorama of the U.S., dotted with highlights a child might recognize, from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge; the recorded narration too is now by a child: Braden Danner, who appears live in the Main Stem's other big new musical, Les Miserables. Along with these bright ideas came a dumb one: instead of having the skating encircle the audience, as in London, the races now take place within the confines of the stage. Thus there is no longer...
...grand effects, including a doomed 1832 uprising complete with six tons of barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...