Word: lordly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...somehow the interior of the Charles Playhouse expands. It has to, to accomodate the exuberance of Godspell actors and actresses. As they march out into the aisles to sing and clap their way through "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," the entire house shakes--except for buoying waves of enthusiasm, the roof might have collapsed long...
Several of the performers also seem larger inside than out B.J. Jefferson's "Bless the Lord" and her numerous minor numbers prove that a theater filling voice can come from inside one woman Jefferson moves easily from upbeat rock to five and soul in "Bless the Lord," and "B.J." call the actors use their own names for their characters dominates many of the parables Debra Hauptman is also solid as a sensual, slightly raunchy but still endearing Debra...
...DISAPPOINTING that, despite the coziness, many actors need a microphone to be heard One of the few who do not need help is Sam Scalamoni. When he first appears in the back of the dark theater singing "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" and sporting a multi-colored tailcoat, Scalamont fills the house by himself. Scalamont, cast as both John the Bapost and Judas, nandies madness subtly the switch from Christ's right-hand man to His betrayer, gradually separating himself from the other joyful, rag-clad actors. He easily outshines James Weatherstone, who is uninspiring as Jesus...
Several of the scenes seem to exist only to reinforce a brutal, Lord-of-the-Files sense of the school. In one, a group of kids in a classroom groan an incomprehensible ditty about teeny-weeny-twirly-spirals. Yet, the movie gets the benefit of the doubt in this case, since the translation is probably to blame for taking away the meaning of the scene. Some of the lines and gestures, though, can only be schmaltz in any language. At one point, Dini is at a bar with an old con; after explaining his feelings, the con mutters...
Outside the Kennedy School a Law School group protested the recently released Reagan budget's proposed elimination of the Legal Services Corporation, a $ 240 million program which pays thousands of lawyers to defend the poor in civil cases such as land lord tenant disputes...