Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coppola would have been better off if he had bagged his screenplay, taken a small table at the Cotton Club, and let the magic work for itself...
...headlines in 1982 during a sensational divorce from his third wife, Roxanne. Lilly and Peter were divorced in 1969. Pulitzer tried to keep her fashions up to date over the past few years by switching to more formal, darker colors. But the designer was never able to find the magic that would capture the attention of today's smart...
...full tomorrow night? Because the play has meaning, and because it is an awful lot of fun to watch. Despite its flaws, this production strives hard to capture that fun--and occassionally succeeds. The spell won't hold for two hours, but a few brief moments of magic are better than none...
Like any great fairy tale, The King Stag includes not only sweetness and beauty but suffering and evil as well; the texture of daily life exaggerated in imagination. And for all the bewitching "superficiality" of the beautiful, masked characters, the play champions the spititual truth which magic and appearances sometimes hide; the beauty of Deramo's soul that shines even from within the grotesque, old man, and the ugliness of Tartaglia's soul that even Deramo's majestic form cannot conceal from the heart of Angela...
...King Stag has a meaning too. It ends when the magician Duandarte, like Shakespeare's Prospero before him, lays down his magic wand and returns to life among men and natural phenomena--but not before saying that, finally, the best fantasies do not escape reality but return to it refreshed with the hope that the ordinary can be wonderful. And he is right. When you leave the Loeb, the streetlights--well, at least the stars--will seem to wink...