Word: louds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shame that George Harrison's Handmade Films, which had become a trademark for quality silliness like Time Bandits or the darker Brazil, should sink to almost pre-Vaudevillian gags in Water. Then again, when the audience is laughing out loud, we often forget to hang on to the story line...
...deficiencies of the genre, the cast of Charlie Brown, led by actor-director Henry Biggs, does well enough, eliciting giggle and aw's from the audience of tots and teenyboppers. The several dozen children who were there Saturday will testify to that. They were smiling and laughing out loud...
...they could expect such people to live together in the same Yard and same dormitories unless they found a way to keep them in. They had tried and failed with fences, but now they had a better idea. The next day, they brought in the first shipment of loud, tone-deaf street musicians, and let them loose in front of Johnson Gate...
Wuthering Heights operates counter to this scheme, making the show seem self-indulgent. The actors, particularly Glucksman, are having a blast, as they act the Tom Cruise fantasy scene with loud music, costumes, and a crowd. But the audience is less happy, trapped in someone else's dream without the requisite backdrops and richness of scenery that might be needed to carry the fantasy to reality...
...Suite Otis" capped off the evening, set to music by and dedicated to the late Otis Redding. Five couples moving synchronously--women dressed in hot pink dresses and men in loud red pants--danced comically against a jet black screen. This sequence was interupted by a short, jazzy piece danced by five women to the song "Satisfaction." The rhythm of this work was contagious, and the audience demanded an encore...