Word: plums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
OLIVER! A gleaming, steaming, rum plum pudding of a musical. Dickens' sociological sting is gone, but in its place is a Christmas package of breathtaking sets, period costumes, and a full-throated, joyous score by Lionel Bart. Best of a twinkling cast are Ron Moody as Fagin and a Toby jug of a boy named Jack Wild as The Artful Dodger...
...Sugar Plum Fairy, a is Warhol's first attempt to turn a trade book into a pop artifact. Described as his first novel, it is a package whose surface looks pretty much like any other book-in the same way that one of his Brillo boxes resembles a Brillo box on a grocery shelf. The contents, however, turn out to be an unedited transcript of 24 hours worth of drug-induced schizophrenic chatter tape-recorded by Warhol while following his friends around...
Vice is what Oliver Twist tells; Romance is what Oliver sells in this musical adaptation. And what a musical it is. A contradictory, comic, overstuffed, gleaming, steaming, rum plum pudding of a film...
...Sugar Plum, he has written about a meeting between a coed artist and the boy who had run over and killed her finance with his car. The whole thing is ludicrous in a Murray Schisgal sort of way; no sooner does the girl arrive, indignant over the death of the man she loved, than she sets out to make it with the killer...
...while Miss Schuck keeps up her half of Sugar Plum, the other and more important half just isn't there. The boy she meets is at the heart of Horovitz's piece; here is a kid who wants to be sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...