Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People were doing irrational things to get ino Romeo and Juliet when Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn danced it in America two years ago. Now that the same Royal Ballet production has been made into a film, the tickets are easier to come by but no less precious...
Perhaps the best thing about this production is that it isn't just a foil for two virtuosi. Kenneth Macmillan's choreography, a mixture of classical ballet and freestyle, tells a story, not an easy thing to do in the case of Romeo and Juliet. It is hard for mutes to establish the family relationships involved, and when a letter is delivered they can indicate that it contains bad or good news but not what news. Nevertheless, Macmillan makes the plot clear and moving. When the stage is full for the crowd scenes, he coordinates the whole corps de ballet...
...this noise about noise seems unnecessarily shrill, considering how much mankind loves the stuff. Italians put Alfa-Romeo horns on Fiats, and sometimes honk until the battery goes dead. Long before the chuffy steam engine, the average town was anything but a hushed haven of peace and quiet; one need only sample the nonstop bell ringing, banging and conversational yelling that still goes on from dawn to dark in any little Spanish fishing village. Men make noise as a way of showing their vitality, and they welcome the noises others make as tokens against loneliness...
WALK, DON'T RUN. Stepping lightly out of his customary Romeo role, Gary Grant plays matchmaker for Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton. The trio squeezes winning high comedy from a wheezy plot about crowded housing in Tokyo during the 1964 Olympics...
Despite a wheezy plot that must be older than Gary Grant, Walk, Don't Run has the ageless advantage of Grant himself, a galloping 62 and perfectly cast as the anything-but-tired tycoon. A sort of magnate cum laude, Grant herein relinquishes his customary Romeo role to play Eros by proxy, and no man could play it better. Instead of making passes at his luscious roommate, Samantha Eggar, he sublets half of his half of her apartment to a lanky Olympic race-walker (Jim Mutton) and starts showing the younger generation how one thing can lead to another...