Word: parks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star of stars at Sea World is Shamu, billed, without fear of contradiction, as the "world's most famous performing killer whale." (Actually there are three Shamus, one for each Sea World park.) The Shamu Celebration veers toward the icky, especially when the heavenly choir from a burger commercial sings reverently, "It's what Shamu means to you and to me." And when a trio of the behemoth's trainers present their what-I-love- about-Shamu testimonials, the onlooker half expects one of them to say, "My whale, I think I'll keep her." But it is a thrill...
...high-tech wonders are created in a surprisingly low-tech cluster of buildings in a suburban office park. A sign out front says THE KERNER COMPANY --a deception intended, company officials say, to keep away youngsters who used to rummage through the garbage looking for cast-off Darth Vaders and E.T.s. The ambiance is casual; blue jeans and running shoes are ubiquitous, and a family spirit prevails. "It's a group effort rather than a search for personal glory," says George Joblove, who joined ILM last year to help develop a computer-graphics department. "There's a nice sense...
...straightforward comic romance that sends audiences out grinning and humming. But in an intensely imaginative 13-show career, Stephen Sondheim has embraced all those unpromising themes. From his big-time debut in 1957 as the lyricist of West Side Story to his 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George, a fantasy about the creation of a French impressionist painting, Sondheim, 56, has steadily pushed toward--or beyond--the limits of what the score, the narrative, the very premise of a musical can be. More than anyone else writing today, perhaps more than anyone who came before...
...record album. Cast albums, even of such failures as 1981's Merrily We Roll Along, are prized by collectors. Last September the belated complete recording of his 1971 spectacular Follies turned into a pair of sold-out Lincoln Center concerts and a PBS television special. Sunday in the Park will reach PBS next week. Sweeney Todd (1979) has received the ultimate musical-theater accolade: being scheduled by the New York City Opera. Many of Sondheim's shows failed to recoup their investment the first time around. But unlike most songs in the genre, Sondheim's have the staying power...
These days Sondheim has disappointingly little competition. For the past two years--since Sunday in the Park--the New York Drama Critics Circle has not deemed any musical worthy of an award. Next season promises a resurgence, with perhaps the brightest glimmer on the horizon Sondheim's own Into the Woods, devised with his Sunday in the Park partner, James Lapine. Its premise is that the stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy-tale figures all take place on the same day in the same forest, practically within bumping distance. The show...