Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband-and-wife radio talk programs; in New York City. The Fitzgeralds gave their audience a daily dose of soap opera vérité, ranging from family spats to discussions of cats, Fitzgerald's failing health and news events, all of it laced with low-key gossip, Shakespearean quotations and rambling reminiscences...
...cove on the coast of a Cornwall that never was, Ronstadt is dead on her feet. She leans her head on Smith's shoulder between takes. All the pirates are on hand, and so are the major general's daughters. George Rose, the major general, a veteran Shakespearean actor trained at the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Theater, is never out of character and never needs a retake. Kevin Kline, the pirate king, has a fencing shirt with a decolletage that makes matrons of good reputation go googly...
...Pulitzer-prizewinning drama. Dreamgirls. A pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...
...provinces paying flawed but fervent fealty to Shakespeare. The time is 1942 in bomb-blasted England, and the war has depleted Sir's resources to an extremely tatty troupe: "I'm reduced to old men, cripples and Nancy-boys. Herr Hitler has made it very difficult for Shakespearean companies...
...less, when set to popular arrangements, every facet of the play takes on more depth and reality as the open space and fresh setting give it room to breathe. Letting the script do the talking, as Samuels does, is probably the best thing anyone can do for a Shakespearean comedy. Furnished with so logical and well-thought-out a setting, it's no surprise that the rest of the play should so serenely follow...