Word: melodrama
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...closed. Mind you, Bombay Dreams didn't have The Color Purple's $10 million advance, which should be enough to let this adaptation of the Alice Walker novel ride out the mostly mixed reviews it received today. Critics wanted to be respectful yet say that this mixture of melodrama and pop music was just an elevated soap Oprah...
...Place. 11:45 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door. $8 in advance, $10 day of show. (JDMC)PerformancesRuddigore, or The Witch’s Curse. Through Dec. 10. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players put on a classic Gilbert and Sullivan parody of Victorian melodrama. Agassiz Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $12/10 general admission, $8/6 students. (AMF)Expressions Dance Co. - Fall Show ’05. Through Dec. 3. Expressions Dance Company performs student-produced dance pieces in a variety of genres, from hip-hop to lyrical. Also...
...Maybe this show has too many ideas, since it is also broken into four seasons: Spring (the early years), Summer (the hit years), Fall (the, y' know, fall from hitmakers to nobodies) and Winter (death, the fourth season for us all, and transfiguration). Since life doesn't always accommodate melodrama, some events, like the death of Valli's daughter from a drug overdose, get pushed out of their proper time frame...
...credit for Phoenix's performance has to go to Mangold, who has always been good at finding the bleak melodrama in taciturn souls: Pruitt Taylor Vince's short-order cook in Heavy, Sly Stallone's tired sheriff in Cop Land. If Mangold's new movie has a problem, it's that he and co-screenwriter Gill Dennis sometimes walk the lines of the inspirational biography too rigorously. John's father, Ray Cash (Robert Patrick), is a one-note ogre who blames John for surviving his more adored younger brother, and whose condemnation of the singer lasts way longer than...
While the play does occasionally resort to outright hysterics, such outbursts are always both warranted and intensely moving. In particular, Martin’s and Kargman’s messy, passionate performances are so intensely emotional that, in intimate theater, they transcend the sometimes overwrought melodrama of great Russian writing, and they manage to transmit to the audience something heartbreakingly real...