Word: orpheus
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...Todd Bolender's choreography seems to be designed for a chorus of unusually limited capacities, and looks like the pointless prancing around that capacities, and looks like the pointless prancing around that characterizes bad amateur Gilbert and Sullivan. His can-can (to the famous tune dragged in from Orpheus in Hades) is probably the soggiest in history...
...than a musical evening, but it succeeds only as a program of songs impeded by dialogue--and succeeds none too well at that. Offenbach's works are still visible as theatre, as has been proved by Cyril Ritchard's Perichole at the Met and also by Stephen Aaron's Orpheus at Lowell House, but Albert Marre's Helen fails for want of any vestige of style or finesse. The exhilaration is missing; the champagne is flat, and while flat champagne can be drunk and even enjoyed, it is chiefly notable as a missed opportunity...
...Sweden's Ingmar Bergman, plunged into a daring and promising renovation of the art of film. Working on tiny budgets without benefit of studio facilities or well-known actors, the men of the Nouvelle Vague (TIME, Nov. 16) in a single year produced at least three pictures-Black Orpheus, The 400 Blows, Hiroshima, Mon Amour-of rare originality and power. And to the amazement of the moneymen, the European public took a shine to the new ideas. Six of the films released last year by the New Wave were solid hits on the Continent-and three...
...Fugitive Kind. A high-priced cast pat includes Marlon Brando, Anna Magriani, Victor Tory and Joanne Woodward turns Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending into a Mississippi bayou, now and then happens on islands of poetry...
...Fugitive Kind. A high-priced cast that includes Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Victor Jory and Joanne Woodward turns Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending into a Mississippi bayou, now and then happens on islands of poetry...