Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People talk far too much, and it will serve no purpose at this stage to reply to that question except to say that South Africa is willing once again to be of service to try to find a solution to this problem. Let me add once again that South Africa is not willing to prescribe in this matter to Rhodesia...
...starring in her own concert production, Shirley is in the midst of a seven-country stage tour that will stretch into the summer. While on the road, she works each night between midnight and 4 a.m. on her third book-and first novel. On March 12 CBS will air her newest TV special, titled Where Do We Go from Here? (10 p.m. E.S.T.), an hour show that she describes as "a peek into the future of entertainment." A peek at MacLaine's future shows Shirley and Actress Anne Bancroft appearing this fall in The Turning Point, a movie about...
...1890s, the story focuses on Harry Brown Jr., a black hoofer played with high-stepping panache by Glynn Turman. Dreaming of fame on the minstrel circuit, he teams up with Charlie Bates, a shady con-mannerist portrayed by Tony Award Winner Ted Ross (The Wiz). The stage is still the white man's domain, however, and Bates, Brown and their fellow black performers must stick to the formula of blackface makeup and plantation humor. They are forced, in vaudeville's looking-glass world, to imitate the white man's parody of blacks...
Thus British Historian E.E.Y. Hales sets the stage for an engaging theological fantasy that would have done credit to the late Anglican author C.S. Lewis. Like Lewis' Great Divorce and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan section of Man and Superman, Chariot of Fire suggests that hell is what one makes of it -and so is heaven...
...Lady Beatrice, Bonnie Landers lacks sufficient crustiness for a member of England's upper class. Landers, who like most of the rest of the cast has a good voice, repeatedly changes her character and looks as if she is surprised to be there every time she walks on stage. As an actress, Meredith Birdsall as Julia, the overprotected daughter who "could live 20 more years and still not be a normal girl of 21," is somewhat better. But Birdsall is too nervous on stage to feel comfortable with the role of the girl who doesn't feel quite comfortable with...