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...this mainly competent cast that dazzle the way the script calls them to. But what the cast lacks in proficiency it valiantly compensates for with energy. And a cast that puts on a spirited, even merely competent production of a great work like A Chorus Line can delight audiences...
That nervy economy of means is the trademark of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who assumes -- correctly, to judge from box-office receipts -- that theatergoing adults take delight in hearing a catchy tune repeated as often as Top 40 songs on teenybopper radio stations. In lesser hands (for that matter, in his own earlier shows), this repetition can suggest paucity of imagination or a kind of melodic stinginess. But in Aspects of Love, the London hit that opens on Broadway this week, the technique works: the tunes bear repeating, and the repetition binds a diffuse story of mostly misguided romance. The impact...
John Christopher Jones is the one bright point on this relentlessly dull cast. As Cloten, the loutish son of the queen, he is an indecisive, brutish, self-contradictory delight. He does not make the mistake of trying to seem pathetic but makes his unrequited love for Imogen appear merely amusing...
...brief newspaper review, as a guide for the theater-goer, is ideal for the more commercial productions in the houses, or at the Mainstage and Agassiz, but in the name of your own intent, do not become faulty guides to the Ex, where the audience members' greatest delight is in finding their own way. James J. Marino...
During the three years that China's door was opened widest to the world, American Ambassador Winston Lord and his wife turned their embassy residence into an exciting salon for Chinese intellectuals. To the delight of those artists and academics who were regulars, these gatherings offered American films, disco lessons and a rare place to talk freely to one another -- and to their effervescent hostess, Shanghai-born novelist Bette Bao Lord. Well before the advent of the democracy movement in Beijing, she began recording their uncensored life stories. Back in the U.S. after the crackdown, she spliced them together with...