Word: off-broadway
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March of the Falsettos. This astringent, clever, ethnic, New Yorky off-Broadway musical by Newcomer William Finn doffs its top hat to Stephen Sondheim. Nicholas Nickleby. Lustrously acted by the Royal Shakespeare Co., this is a theatrical experience to be savored for a lifetime...
...will charge for its programming (between $8 and $10 a month) and also carry discreet institutional advertising, a combination that some viewers may nonetheless find excessive. Forty percent of its selection will come from the BBC; the rest will consist largely of children's shows, foreign films and Broadway and off-Broadway plays. The Entertainment Channel will have enough middlebrow programs, claim its executives, to make it something broader than the other cultural cables. But those services will probably be its competitors nevertheless...
...actor on stage and screen, Michael Moriarty, 40, knows the sting of critics' barbs. But Moriarty, unlike most performers, can retaliate in kind. Last week he starred in a tart, off-Broadway monologue called Dexter Creed, written by himself. Moriarty portrays an acerbic, dyspeptic critic loosely modeled on John Simon, 56, the acerbic, dyspeptic drama critic for New York magazine. Simon considers himself an arbiter of high artistic standards. And clearly Dexter Creed doesn't come up to them. In his review of the play this week, Simon growls: "Cruel and unusual punishment." For whom? The playgoer...
...sleeve of a Halston ultrasuede jacket, dinner for two at a Manhattan restaurant or tickets to three conventional Broadway shows. It will also get you into the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, whose first preview performances last week helped launch the new Broadway season. In terms of time and money spent, this sprawling, tumultuous, 8½-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1839 novel is the theatrical bargain of the decade. One off-Broadway musical ?five lively actors, 70 easy minutes, the audience seated in chairs designed by a Bauhaus sadist?costs the playgoer...
...small presses constitute the off-Broadway of U.S. publishing, then this annual anthology, now in its sixth year, is becoming the equivalent of the Obie Awards. The development is almost all to the good. Those who contribute to little magazines know in advance that their readers will be few and their pay, if any, laughable. They must make a virtue of necessity and find gratification in their work itself; being singled out for recognition by The Pushcart Prize is a happy bonus...