Word: duction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to unleash some of the drive and sexual energy that marked his work in Saturday Night Fever. He is technical ly very competent: there is a smooth, pro fessional quality to every shot. But since the script and the entire design of the pro duction are aimed at stressing the roman tic at the expense of the passionate and obsessive elements in this tale, he gets to do only the odd clutching-hand scare shot and a few nicely staged chases. There is evidence- a dinner Dracula gives Lucy that is lit by thousands of candles, for example...
WKRP in Cincinnati (Sept. 18, CBS, 8 p.m.). If this Mary Tyler Moore pro duction can maintain the level of its premiere, it will be the funniest series to hit prime-time TV since The Mary Tyler Moore Show itself. Set at a money-losing radio station that dumps its "elevator music" format for top-40 rock, WKRP is a sitcom dream. Its laughs derive from character rather than contrived gags; its cast is an ensemble of inventive comic actors. The first episode, which establishes the premise and players with dazzling efficiency, is an almost steady howl...
Such small quibbles aside, goodness had everything to do with this superb pro duction of I, Claudius...
...spring, playgoers in three cities will have had a chance to hear Durang's words. The play had its premiere at the Hartford Stage Com pany in March. A totally different pro duction, with a separate cast and an other director, was unveiled at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles last month; even while that is still running, a third, also different version will open this week at Washington's Arena Stage...
...melodrama. "Whatever is written in the score should be heard," says Simonov, echoing his idol, the late Arturo Toscanini. That goes for voices too. Simonov has a knack, for allowing key vocal phrases to come through, while keeping the orchestra down but precisely audible. This Pique Dame pro duction is a relatively youthful eleven years old; it too is evocative...