Word: edvard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to yesteryear's elaborate Freddie Kruger gloves or many-holed Friday the 13th hockey masks, "The Scream" role calls for a white mask vaguely reminiscent of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, a black robe and a kitchen knife. All are available at Halloween Adventures...
...Street offers a Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just for practice. The next victim is a teenage virgin (pretty, plucky Neve Campbell, one of the preternaturally bedimpled kids on TV's Party of Five...
...elaborate design. Each show is identifiably Cirque, yet as distinct as a new Robert Wilson opera production. Like other Cirque shows, Quidam has a dozen or so main acts. As the featured artists parade the genius of their bodies in stunts of strength and grace, Cirque's menagerie (Edvard Munch's silent screamer, Clive Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie. Ballerina-contortionists flex gaily; Pierrots bodysurf across the stage on skateboards; the man with the newspaper floats in midair. Dragone exhausts the laws of geometry...
...slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...
...finale production number revealed more second-hand material. Significant plagiarism of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" and Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blemished the score, previously marked only by a humorous reference to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. The orchestra seemed weary as well, though its strong rhythm section pushed onwards...