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DICK TRACY. Lovely to look at (seven gorgeously orchestrated colors), delightful to hear (three terrific Stephen Sondheim songs), a pleasure to sit through. Warren Beatty's take on the tec is funny but not facetious, and Madonna sizzles as a vamp chanteuse. Pssst! -- this girl could be big in movies...
...Tracy's look surely does merit rapture, but the movie also has wit and grace in a film era of witless gross-out. Scan the bold sweep of the narrative, which poses ripe dilemmas of career, love and family for a loner sleuth. Hum the songs written by Stephen Sondheim in his (hummable) Follies mode and splendidly performed by Madonna and Patinkin. Attend to the bold filigree work of the film's supporting cast of rogues, most of whom are devil- dolled up in grotesque prostheses and outlandish mannerisms but are given ample room to strut their stuff. Their leader...
...Performing Artists' AIDS Coalition produced Parents, Lovers, and Other Problems: the Music and Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim as a benefit for Deaconess Hospital AIDS Patient Care, but this sparkling show is a benefit to audiences as well as patients...
...Stephen Sondheim discovered in his musical Into the Woods, updating a fairy tale presents some prickly challenges. The old-fashioned and sometimes painfully stilted language must be made contemporary and relevant. At the same time, a writer should remain faithful to that sense of enchantment and wonder which underscores every fantasy...
That lyric, with its cross-cultural elisions and unsprung rhythms stashed inside orchestrations belonging more to Sondheim than Springsteen, is from Tokyo Rose, an elfin but savage ten-song essay on the growing misalliance of Japan and America. The record is not only big themed, it is big fun. That combination of intellectual ambition and musical serendipity can be recognized as the work of Van Dyke Parks by his legion of . . . oh, say, 782 fans. We're not talking Milli Vanilli here. But we are on the subject of someone rather terrific...