Word: forman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milos Forman found a reason. The director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest saw a way to retain the play's intellectual breadth and formal audacity without betraying the movie medium's demand for matter of fact naturalism. And he persuaded Shaffer, who had been disappointed by film adaptations of his plays, including The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus, to write the Amadeus screenplay, reshaping Amadeus from a madman's memory play to a more realistic musical biography. Recalls Shaffer: "It was like having the same child twice...
...hectoring apparition to an onscreen tyrant, and provides a thrilling new climax in which the dying Mozart dictates his Requiem to a Salieri racked with guilt, jealousy and awe. If the operatic excerpts occasionally impede dramatic flow, they capture the Mozartian spirit as well as comment, with typical Forman bravura, on the theme of an oaf who makes miracles with music: in the Don Giovanni parody, a dove flies out of a horse...
...Vigna-Roberts Hing (H)d Forman-Trucks...
...Jane Forman (C)d Elizabeth Evans...
...troupe will tour Latin America this spring, Western Europe in the summer. Next fall will see the open-ing of Milos Forman's film Amadeus, for which she created the dances. Next year she will make a full-length work for a European company, inspired by the early ballets of Mozart's time. Before that will come a June collaboration with Jerome Robbins for New York City Ballet. All of Broadway has its eye on this matchup of two tough-minded show-biz smoothies. So far Robbins has made only one suggestion: that the drop curtain...