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APPLAUSE interrupts dialogue from Private Lives more than 20m times, but the cheers, giggles and whistles don't necessary follow Noel Coward's lines. Instead, the audience listens to Elyot Chase (Richard Burton) ask Amanda (Elizabeth Taylor), his ex-wife whether she thinks they'll ever marry each other again. "I don't know, "Taylor drawls, as the audience grows increasingly expectant, "Marriage scares me really...
Knowing laughter begins, as if one needs more than a superficial knowledge to recognize the all-too-obvious similarities between life and art: Liz and Dick were married, just like Elyot and Amanda, Liz and Dick were divorced, just like Elyot and Amanda, could Liz and Dick get back together again? Actually, they could, and did, and their second marriage ended badly, too. But if audience reaction serves as any barometer, then America hungers for a third chapter when Burton and Taylor first kiss in Act One, the audience whistles and cheers, as if it intends to will a romantic...
They were like "two violent acids bubbling about in a nasty little matrimonial bottle." Divorced and remarried, they meet and fall passionately in love all over again. Liz and Dick? Well, yes, but also Amanda and Elyot, the bright and brittle lovers in Noel Coward's 1930 comedy, Private Lives. What could be more perfectly dramatic than for Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Richard Burton, 56, to combine their ability to light a fuse with Sir Noel's talent to amuse? At a press conference in Los Angeles announcing their first joint outing on Broadway this spring, the blithe...
Phlegmatic Dumbos. Amanda and Elyot (John Standing) are two fiendishly theatrical people who wear their ennui with ill-concealed hysteria. Having suffered the raptures and torments of marriage to each other, they put their hearts in a deep freeze. Divorced for several years, they are each on second honeymoons, having married two dolts from dullsville. All Coward plays are divided between two sets of people-bright, neurotic sophisticates and starchy, phlegmatic dumbos. Amanda and Elyot and their spouses meet on the adjoining verandas of a French Riviera hotel, and in no time at all Amanda and Elyot are making...
...John, a man far from devoid of intellect, should have totally ignored the fact that Private Lives is a romantic comedy and not a knockabout farce to be milked for cheap, rowdy laughs. However they may strike us 44 years after the play was written, Amanda and Elyot were meant to be romantic names. The one song in the play, Some Day I'll Find You, is as seductive as a dizzying perfume. This production exudes merely a sorry stench. ·T.E.K...