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The frustrated Cariou looks up and beds down his ex-mistress (Glynis Johns). She is an actress fabled for her affairs on-and offstage who is currently pleasuring herself with a hussar (Lawrence Guittard). This is our old friend from Roman comedy, the miles gloriosus, the soldier puffed up with...
Nothing lends the show quite so much strength as Stephen Sondheim's score. It is a beauty, his best yet in an exceedingly distinguished career. The prevailing waltz meter is more suggestive of fin de siècle Vienna than the Scandinavian north, but why carp? In a show...
Producer-Director Hal Prince, who demands mere perfection from a cast, gets very nearly that here. He has curbed Gingold's hammy excesses, lit up the sexy enchantress in Johns, and released in Cariou a presence, as well as a voice, that marks him for the top of the...
It may be no accident that two painters known for maintaining a critical dialogue with abstract expressionism come off very well in the film. The art of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns is of a type that admits more easily than that of the formalists to personal justification. Thus we...
Abubble. For 24 hours there was gloom enough to sink a Bergman tragedy, let alone a comedy. Prince talked with Actress Tammy Grimes about taking over the Johns part- a switch that would have meant a one-week delay of the opening, at a cost of $50,000. "This business...