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...decade, images of the faraway country came flooding into the U.S. on tape and film and photographic paper, pictures of Viet Nam by the hundred gross. Bit by visual bit, Americans accrued a vivid (if distorted) portrait of the country where their sons and husbands were dying, a terrifying multimedia montage of nervous teenage heroes behind sandbags, of Saigon's beleaguered charm, of a green, green countryside with helicopters hovering everywhere...
Words cannot do justice to this multimedia experience. In color, songs and dance in evokes a rollercoaster of emotions. "Revelations" begins with sorrowful songs like, "FIX Me Jesus" and "Didn't My Believer Daniel." The slow, almost painful pieces break into a scene around a river. "Take Me to the Water" women a white gowns and men in their finery dance as the river rises. They sway, push and pull and upon there is no doubt that the river is rising. Donna Wood. holding a parasol way above the water, sends shivers up one's spine as she moves...
Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, a homage to trains, with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, is (surprise!) the season's hottest ticket. It is also just about a total bust. For this multimedia combo of Rollerball and The Little Engine That Could, Designer John Napier has ramped and revamped the huge Apollo Victoria Theater, allowing the young cast room to roller-skate through three levels of the audience. But all the amplified sound and whirling energy cannot hide the show's vacuity. The story line is repetitive and inconsequential; Trevor Nunn's staging is an elephantine parody...
...film for the first three weeks of its release and has earned $38 million at the box office so far; Footloose the album, with sales of more than a million, is currently No. 5 on the Billboard charts; and Footloose the single is No. 4. Of such stuff are multimedia successes made...
...Kingsley's misfortune that Gandhi cast him in an unfamiliar role: as multimedia star. In his new one-man show, which opened last week on Broadway, he is portraying a man who helped define the image of the charming, demon-driven actor. The stage is suffused with a gloomy glow-the dressing room for a command performance in hell, crowded with the ghosts of Kean's past. His wife, his mistress, his dead son and his surviving one, the theater managers who wronged him and the leading men he saw as his incompetent rivals, all are evoked...