Word: melodrama
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...pressed by a friend to take a $1,000 loan, China, a candlemaker, invests it unwisely, goes broke and dies. This essentially is the plot of the opera, and it is not strong enough to support an evening of musical theater. It is merely the old pay-the-rent melodrama, not real drama...
...offering a look at one of the world's most impor tant dramatic institutions at its very best-a'rich, culturally resonant blend of acting, sets, costumes, music and dancing that is likely to remind gaijin of grand opera melodrama, situation comedy and Richard III all at once...
...rest of the cast uniformly sustains this high energy level Gregg Lachow, as Johan Toennesen, Lona's half-brother, and Paul Warner as Bernick's model son Olaf, balance admirably between humor and a straight interpretation. Lachow conveys the wounded dignity of Bernick's betrayed friend without slipping into melodrama...
Given their bent, movie stars naturally give the stories of their lives many cinematic touches. Their accounts frequently take on the tone of melodrama or soap opera. Lauren Bacall watches her new lover Humphrey Bogart go home to his wife from the set of To Have and Have Not: "When would I see him? When would he call? How could he stand to be with that woman? How could he stand not to be with me?" Young Henry Fonda looks up at the suddenly dark window of the apartment in which he believes his wife Margaret Sullavan to be consorting...
...beautiful people are descending with their beautiful money, and so are the fight mob, the press corps and the crapshooters, all drawn to the enchantment. That too is why, across the U.S., lines are long wherever theaters are showing Rocky III, Sylvester Stallone's latest episode in the movie melodrama that exploits the mystique of the heavyweight championship (see CINEMA). Call it the days of wine and bloody noses, or a week of heavyweights real and imagined, but boxers are on people's minds. An old excitement is back...