Word: improvisationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The cast is highly efficient in their portrayals, relying heavily on caricature and improvisation. Ouellette's Whitcomb is particularly hilarious, although the P.C. police might not be too happy with his characterization of the gay hairdresser. The roles are one-dimensional enough for the actor to concentrate on adlibbing and...
The subject of the workshop, it quickly became apparent, was improvisation. All those assembled were given copies of musical scores, which contained odd melodic patterns and all manner of symbols to notate Fox's ideas. Fox appeared dressed in a casual yet snazzy blazer and turtleneck, with a case full...
But Carlito needs more than a good woman to avoid recidivism. He needs Pat O'Brien. You remember Pat O'Brien, Cagney's superego, trying to keep his wayward pal on a righteous path. What Carlito has instead is his friend and shyster lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn, in a...
Knox's live show normally ends when he makes up, on the spot, a song from one line offered by an audience member. At the Paradise last week, he came up with "Riding on the Green Line"--the on-the-spot song sounded great, though Knox wasn't sure if...
The awesome aesthetic reach of Sunday's "intellectual memorial" for W.E.B. DuBois owed much as well to the voices of Walter Robinson and Co. These voices proved more than equal to the haunting and soulful beauty of what DuBois deftly called the "Sorrow Songs"--the Negro Spirituals. The Singer of...