Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guys and Dolls is difficult to destroy, but it is similarly difficult to play well. This production has the promise of being as unique to the show's off-Broadway performance history as it is to Harvard theater--its particularly dedicated production staff and cast attempt to bring the script and score to their full potential...
...Simpsons have won over America's couch-potato masses is proof that story matters more than even the most eye-popping special effects. "Sooner or later, all this stuff is going to seem antiquated," admits Andrew Stanton, the co-director and screenwriter of A Bug's Life. "The script is the only thing that isn't going to deteriorate over time...
...little betrayed by the fact that most of the answers she gave to the questions from the crowd at Sanders can be found in her book? You can't. Deal. It's not to say that Whoopi was fake--clearly she was not. She just knew her life's script well...
...just like every though talking, rough playing sleuth you've ever seen, and Buddy every double dealing, triple timing studio exec to have graced the realm of film stereo type. It is a tribute to the cast's talent that their characters outlive their interpretations. In a sense the script is so solidly seductive that the lines each time they speak. Cy Coleman's music and David Zippel's lyrics are often guilty of stealing the show, ranging from jazz to filmscore to mood tunes, and always spiked with witty lyrics. The fourteen man orchestra does a laudable...
However, flow is not so much forsaken, asexcusably sacrificed, for an admirable mastery ofthe vignette. City of Angles consists offragmented tableaux like those of a film, whereeach scene is stylistically and convincinglyexecuted. In fact, the achievement of directorPete Wilson '99 lies in his sensitive productionof the divisions in the script. What could wellhave been a technical nightmare-the disparaterealities of Stine and Stone-is slickly overcomewith juxtapositions, stop-action andinstant-reverse stage-play. At points, the setsand music are manipulated with skill to slip fromone world to another. It is the generalprofessionalism of the production that makes theever-present...