Word: flair
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Fiddler cannot be called experimental theatre. It is no avant-garde drama in which no one know what to expect. But then again Fiddler is not outdated despite its well-worn themes and the troupe at kirkland stages the traditional musical with sparkle and flair revealing the show's appeal to people of all ages and all times. If you ignore tradition and skip seeing it you will miss something very special...
...mother Frances, a lovely Southerner who married the middle-aged Bergen when she was little more than a girl. But Candy had some of her father's stiffness as well, and Pauline Kael's article in LIFE about The Group reported that "as an actress, her only flair is in her nostrils." The author admits that Kael was right, but the chastisement did not send her running to acting school. She began a period in which she had an affair with an Austrian count, learning to speak English with the slightest of accents, as if it were...
...vaudeville flair so far has overshadowed the dramatic skill she has shown, notably in the full-length The Catherine Wheel (1981). But from now on she ought to be recognized as a major choreographer; indeed it can already be said that this is Twyla Tharp's year. Her troupe, now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is launched on a national tour featuring three of her jazz classics (Eight Jelly Rolls, Sue's Leg, Baker's Dozen) and some provocative new pieces that break away from the American nostalgia that is her specialty. Nine Sinatra Songs...
...erotic, bless his heart. He was a craftsman, not someone who took a 19th century artistic pose. He trained generation after generation of dancers, each a development on earlier ones, and his own work developed and diversified. He was a good businessman - I like that - and I loved the flair of the man." Tharp visited Balanchine when he was dying and no longer able to recognize anyone...
...wore my best clothes and my good perfume," she says, "because I knew he would still enjoy that." That is a tribute, with flair. No one is about to replace Balanchine or even approach his union of genius, constancy and craft. But it is good that someone is studying the map and traveling the routes and exploring the whole world of dance theater...