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...trouble began when British producer Cameron Mackintosh announced that Jonathan Pryce would reprise his starring role in the Broadway edition of Miss Saigon, the London blockbuster musical that sets the Madama Butterfly story in the Vietnam War. Pryce had won an Olivier Award as the French-Vietnamese pimp who helps effect a poignant reunion between an American soldier and the Vietnamese girl he left behind...
Musically, the Les Miz team here provides something subtler, less lushly melodramatic. Bowman and Claire Moore as his wife make the best of thankless parts, although his pitch and accent wobble while she sings gloriously. Jonathan Pryce is deliciously campy yet sympathetic as the Engineer, a Eurasian pimp evocative of the emcee in Cabaret. In Salonga, a star is born. Playing a plaster saint, she is stunningly real. But the show's final moments are so bleak that despite an $8 million advance, its future may not be assured. Some downers, like Les Miz, are at heart ups. This...
...perhaps Britain's foremost stage actor. Alternately raging and lapsing into bathos, bubbling with kindness as he worsens the lives of those he most means to help, he embodies the tragedy of a common man. Just as powerful are Imelda Staunton as Vanya's homely niece and Jonathan Pryce as the destructive doctor whom she loves...
Bound in this political and technological straitjacket is Gilliam's hero, the unassuming, unambitious Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce). In order to find a little peace and quiet, Lowry spends every spare moment fantasizing about another life. In his dreams, we find him coursing through the clouds over a fairytale landscape, and fighting to rescue a beautiful maiden (Kim Greist), a stark contrast to his humdrum daily existence in which we find him ably solving problems for his incompetent but adoring boss (Ian Holme...
Gilliam has called Brazil "Walter Mitty meets Franz Kafka" and describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like...