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...whittled-down plot has the lovers Catherine and Heathcliff falling apart and coming back together after being seduced by the bright lights of the big city. Catherine (Julie Glucksman) leaves her home, Wuthering Heights, and the man she loves to become Madonna. She finds a new life gyrating across stage in a hyper-kinetic frenzy as adoring fans slavishly flay themselves against the stage...
Catherine finds a perfect match for her new persona in Edgar Linton (John Vaughan), whose rousing Wham! number is an early highlight of the production. Heathcliff (Michael Allio), too, leaves Wuthering Heights and finds the stage, transforming himself from an introspective Sting to the raucous Billy Idol...
...Wuthering Heights is no ordinary show. Subtitled "A Pop Myth," the setting and costumes are an amalgam of Victorian Gothic and MTV Modernism, and almost all the dialogue has been replaced by lip-synching to pop songs by the likes of Sting and Kate Bush. Keshishian has transformed Catherine, Heathcliff, and Linton from English nobility to pop stars, and added supporting characters like an agent (Nicholas C. Bienstock '88) and a washed up singer (Mona A. Khalil...
While most of the cast is eating dinner, Keshishian and stage mangager Julia K. Moskin '89 work from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. with the principles: Catherine (Julie J. Glucksman '87), Heathcliff (Michael K. Allio '86), and narrator Nelly Dean (Amy F. Brenneman...
...even the coldest TV critics. Unlike other prime-time successes of recent years, such as Dallas and The A-Team, the series does not trade in illicit sex, cliff-hanger endings or car chases. It is a wholesome and rather sweet portrayal of a relatively realistic household. Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable and his family happen to be black, but no special point is made of that fact--a refreshingly mature treatment of the matter of race...