Word: playgoers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LUTHER. Playwright John Osborne looks back in anger at the people and practices that outraged Martin Luther. In the surging power of Albert Finney's portrayal, the playgoer senses the force that shaped the Reformation...
LUTHER. Playwright John Osborne looks back in anger at the people and practices which outraged Martin Luther. In the power of Albert Finney's portrayal, the playgoer senses the force which shaped the Reformation...
Playwright Rattigan's judgment ranks little higher. In a crucial scene, he asks the playgoer to believe that the homosexual president of a mammoth U.S. corporation would blandly ignore a $6,000,000 auditing discrepancy in Antonescu's books just to get the telephone number of a boy who has taken his fancy. The boy (Barry Justice) is Antonescu's illegitimate son, and the father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final...
...STREETS OF NEW YORK smiles through the tears in this musical adaptation of one of 19th century Dramatist Dion Boucicault's marshmelodramas about a mortgage-foreclosing cad of a banker. In a properly silly mood, a playgoer can bear with the ancient corn and relish the singing and miming of a stylishly spoofy cast...
...could have been a flop. The plot and one of the sight gags are middle-of-the-rut, but the comedy never bogs down because it keeps taking fresh and fanciful detours. Mike Nichols' direction and Neil Simon's quip hand are faster than the most jaded playgoer's recollective...