Word: draculas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Gorey, illustrator and set designer (Dracula): "I think style chooses you. If I could choose, I would draw like Rembrandt. He could turn a splotch into a landscape...
...Dracula. This beautifully mounted show shivers the funny bones. As the eerie, spectral count, Frank Langella drinks deep of the Pierian spring of fame...
...York Times's Richard Eder of such "tergiversation, equivocation, doublethink and simultaneous talking out of both corners of his mouth as took his predecessor, Clive Barnes [now at the New York Post], years of painstaking practice to master." Colleagues are quick to pan Simon in return: "The Count Dracula of critics!" (Andrew Sarris, the Village Voice); "The Transylvanian vampire!" (Robert Brustein. Yale Drama School); "Personally offensive!" (Brendan Gill, The New Yorker). Many of Simon's critics, however, would not dispute his immense erudition and frequent fairness. Says Harvey Sabinson, a director of the league that banned...
...Dracula of Shubert Alley was born in Yugoslavia 52 years ago, came to the U.S. at 15 and took a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Harvard. After contributing to a number of publications, Simon became New York's drama critic in 1969 and switched to film reviews in 1975. Simon's movie reviewing for other publications had been first-rate, but the scholar seemed miscast in that role for New York, wasting himself on recondite rhapsodies for slick-but-shallow entertainments like The Spy Who Loved Me, until New York mercifully put him back on the theater beat...
...Dracula's would-be bride for all of eternity, Ann Sachs is a delectably enticing houri in a negligee, or a slinky gown that might well pass for a negligee. Looking much like a vapid blonde flapper out of a 1920s perfume advertisement, she exudes a musk of sensuality that obviously makes Dracula yearn for more than blood. The rest of the cast is exemplary, and the sounds of baying offstage hounds are ear-tingling. But the show belongs first, last, and almost always to Gorey and Langella...