Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tradition of concert revivals--in which the principals wear evening clothes and hold the show's script in their hands, and a full orchestra saws away at the original orchestrations--is a distinguished one. Jerome Kern's 1985 centenary cued half a dozen glittery restorations. In London an ambitious series called Discover the Lost Musicals has flourished since 1988. The same year, Daykin produced concert versions of two Gershwin musicals, as well as an all-star tribute that featured a gnomic rendition of Soon by Bob Dylan. ("Did he hit even one right note?" Daykin asks today.) When she came...
...plot: Hades busts Persephone for wearing imitation Patrick Cox white loafers and forces her to spend the winter months in the Underworld of Las Vegas before being released to Beverly Hills for Contempo Casuals' spring sales. The relationship between script and clothing was murky, for Monoyudis's palette owed more to 1988 Miami than the West Coast. The two halves of Persephone's wardrobe, from her winter internment in Las Vegas and her springtime rebirth in Los Angeles, were nearly identical in their erratic eclecticism...
This wry caveat in the program for # was an early signpost to inscrutability. The script, written by Tim Yu and J. Eric Marler, was many things--arch, hip, synthetic, cruel--but it was not easy to follow...
...charming role in Clueless, doesn't have a particularly difficult role. He is labeled the martyr from the outset, the "object of affection" that Aniston will sweat, cry and bleed over from beginning to end. Though he successfully avoids stereotypes, even Rudd seems sometimes uncomfortable with the dangerously unpredictable script. His character ultimately lacks coherence...
...script is schizophrenic. While Macaulay's book is known for its intensive character studies of Nina and George, Wendy Wasserstein's script idles with the addition of random, irrelevant characters. Alan Alda and Allison Janey appear in small supporting roles to fit the screen with comic relief whenever the cheese becomes unbearable. Nigel Hawthorne, a Hytner mainstay, is thrown into the movie for no apparent reason (other than to give a tedious monologue where he works in the title of the movie.) Even worse, the script is unsure of itself-the declarations of love between various sets of characters...