Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: 15TH ANNIVERSARY (NBC, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. EDT). Still crazy -- or at least trying to be -- after all these years, the once groundbreaking comedy show waxes nostalgic in a prime-time special...
...LADY IN QUESTION. Just what is the pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
Sweeney and his landlady are at bottom leftist abstractions. He is the innocent man turned criminal by a wicked power structure; exiled by a corrupt judge who lusted after his wife, he returns vowing to show nobody any more mercy than he received. Mrs. Lovett is a singing, dancing and grimacing Mother Courage, sapped of moral scruple by economic privation and sheer will to survive. Beth Fowler and Bob Gunton sing nobly, and the production's intimacy includes a welcome emphasis on natural, unmiked sound. She enriches Lovett with a lifelong ardor for Sweeney and a pixilated fondness for romantic...
...cracks down, he will hearten the enemies, who are already making rich political capital out of the discrimination against Russians. The Soviet leader met with Baltic party and government officials last week to seek some compromise of their demands. This week's oft-postponed plenum may show if he has found a way to calm the potentially explosive ethnic hostilities threatening to shake his rule...
...Says media analyst John Morton of Lynch Jones & Ryan in Washington: "From all we can learn, the company is healthy, although heavily leveraged. The small papers are cash cows. I admire him for taking this risky venture. But I'm from Missouri on this one -- he'll have to show...