Word: giraudoux
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...paper, Dear World, the musical prepping in Boston for its New York debut, has a promising premise, one that could even be exciting in the execution: an adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's Madwoman of Chaillot with Angela Lansbury as the title character. On stage, though, it's a failure and not a hell...
DEAR WORLD. Music by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!). Starring Angela Lansbury, the Mame dame. Giraudoux's Madwoman of Chaillot sets off to destroy the wicked...
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER, Spring Green, Wis., offers Friedrich von Schiller's Mary Stuart, Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, June 22-July...
...overriding buildup of tension leading to a climactic finish. Instead, Truffaut provides a whole series of suspenseful crescendos-and finds voluptuous revelations and eerie beauty in each one of them. Under his low-keyed, meticulous direction, all the murdered men give subtle performances that would do credit to Giraudoux. Out standing is Michel Bouquet, pathetic yet loathsome as a pawky, balding bachelor who cannot believe his good fortune when a mysterious beauty comes to his shabby room with a bottle of strange-tasting liqueur. Scarcely less memorable is Charles Denner, a painter who poses Moreau as Diana the Huntress...
Initially hailed, Tiger now seems undecipherable and inconsequential. Giraudoux lacked the wit to give his play buoyancy and the wisdom to give it gravity. He simply swaps frivolous badinage on war, a tragic theme that demands poetry and power...