Word: goer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOTHING DISTRESSES the sap-loving theater-goer more than watching the slow deterioration of this dowager of romantic musicals. Her originality is withered; her witticisms are expected; her style is frumpy and outdated by two decades. She survives on her past grandeur - barely enough to keep her flickering, let alone to satiate an audience. In short, My Fair Lady has become dowdy...
However, beneath his first astonishment, the gallery-goer can feel an obscure troubling of dissatisfaction with this work. In an articulate, chummy interview published in the catalogue that accompanies the museum show, Meyerowitz cites the painter Edward Hopper among predecessors who have taken the Cape for a subject. The comparison is instructive: Meyerowitz has, like Hopper, great feeling for the season, weather, time of day in the scene he records, and has a similar ability to make the commonplace seem monumental. Like Hopper, he admirably resists any easy, ironic comment about the lives that inhabit his terrain, but he lacks...
...experienced convention-goer (Dec. 18], I penned these lines...
...music that carries the show, How to Succeed's plot, after all, stretches the credulity of even the most avid musical-goer, and some of the dialogue should be footnoted for its sheer cloying idiocy. But it doesn't seem to matter. Listen to O'Brien do justice to "Coffee Break," hear Frank Coates, as the stuffily philandering boss, join Baldridge in a rousing rendition of "Old Ivy," and sit back and enjoy as Baldridge and Sargent charm their way through "Rosemary" and "I Believe in You," and you have an evening's entertainment. So what, you say, if this...
Experiences with stillborn productions seem to dominate Seldes' career. On one level, The Bright Lights relates the story of an actress who has never quite made it. Although she is a Tony-award winner, she is not a star: the average theater goer would not recognize her name--a fact Seldes herself realizes. Often, she evaluates her career with humor...