Word: gielguds
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...than still pictures strung together in a technique known, rather generously, as dissolve animation. Sales have been moderate (cost: $9.95 or $14.95 a tape), but titles are multiplying rapidly. Following its initial series of 18 storybook classics (Thumbelina, read by Kelly McGillis; The Emperor's New Clothes, with John Gielgud), the company has just launched a new collection of folktales from around the world, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Max von Sydow. Also in the works: legendary American tales and Bible stories. The videos are being run on the Showtime cable network, and Raul Julia is recording them...
...even that they were more or less ensuring -- if the principle were to be applied fairly -- that most Asian-American actors would have to sit around in limbo and wait for the next production of The Mikado. They were also raising some highly intriguing questions. How can John Gielgud play Prospero when Doug Henning is at hand? Should future Shakespeares -- even future August Wilsons -- stock their plays with middle-class whites so as to have the largest pool of actors from which ( to choose? And next time we stage Moby Dick, will there be cries that the title part...
...Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Branagh displayed the salesman's knack of charm and fearlessness -- the seductive intelligence, so crucial to performing, managing and directing. He wrote to Olivier for advice on the role of Chebutykin in Three Sisters. He took notes on playing Hamlet from John Gielgud. He determined to play the Dane at a performance attended by the Queen and Prince Philip. Later, preparing his RSC Henry, he won an audience with Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace to discuss the isolation felt by a national leader. Wooed and won by the young actor, Charles became a patron...
...decades housed a company that emphasized Shakespeare and included some of the great British stage names of the 20th century: Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness and Ashcroft among them. Then, from 1963 to 1976, it served as the first home of Britain's National Theater. Thereafter it declined into a mere booking hall, just another space where a producer might launch a commercial production. Now Miller and the theater's owners, Toronto Businessman Ed Mirvish, 73, and his son David, 43, are seeking to bring back the glory days of the classics. Their goal: a commercial troupe to rival in quality...
...MCKELLEN won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus but is best-known in his native England as one in a four-centuries-long succession of Shakespearean actors that includes Richard Burbage (the first Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello), Sir John Gielgud and Paul Scofield. The players constitute something of a royal house--or at least are knighted pretty often...