Word: gorgeousity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sisters Rosensweig have gathered in London for the 54th birthday of the eldest sister, Sara Goode, a London banker. Gorgeous Teitelbaum, a radio talk show host and housewife, is leading the Newton Temple Beth-El Sisterhood on a tour of London. The youngest, Pfeni Rosensweig, is a travel writer just in from Bombay. Also attending the birthday dinner are Sara's rebellious cliche of a daughter Tess, Tess' improbable Lithuanian resistance fighter boyfriend Tom, and Pfeni's bisexual boyfriend Geoffrey. A stuffed shirt Englishperson makes a brief appearance but he is mainly there as contrast to Mervyn, the lovable faux...
...Gorgeous is everything that Sara ran away from. She lives in Newton with her nice Jewish lawyer husband and her adorable children and quotes from her rabbi incessantly. As written by Wasserstein, she is a vivacious, scene-stealing steamroller of a sister. The way that Caroline Aaron plays her in the first act, however, Gorgeous comes off as little short of a parody. Aaron is so over the top with lines like "you're wandering how I got my name, well, isn't it obvious?" that you can almost picture her dropping in on Linda Richman's Coffee Talk...
...company. Like the rest of the creative team for this national touring production, he worked on the original Broadway production and it shows. The staging is masterful and Sullivan has worked hard to keep the many humorous moments from unbalancing the show. Set designer John Lee Beatty's gorgeous London house fits Sara's assimilated English life perfectly--it looks like she ordered it straight from Laura Ashley, brocade pillows and all. Jane Greenwood has a similar sure touch with the costuming; everything from Pfeni's princess gown to Gorgeous' running outfit is perfect. The lighting by Pat Collins...
...equally mad with curiosity: Why doesn't Trokovsky just move into another apartment? Why does he always keep the lights in his apartment turned off, so that the audience stares for the most part at a blank grey screen? And most of all, why is the dead girl's gorgeous friend Stella (Isabelle Adjani) so determined to get the thoroughly unattractive Trokovsky into...
...actors some bit of business that could save a scene or a show. In I'll Do Anything, he gets spot-on performances -- especially from Nolte, who displays all the intensity that somebody who wants to think of himself as a nice guy dares to show, and Richardson, whose gorgeous, frazzled perkiness suggests a cheerleader on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The great turn, through, is from Wright, who plays a tough, often sullen kid -- precariously poised between acting and acting up. On location, setting up a shot where the five- year-old wore a coat, Brooks told...