Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids are managers now, huh? And all of them were named Bob. Dale, Richard, Louis, William, Terrence and Stephen. Not a Roberta or Louise or Stephanie in the bunch...
With the possible exception of Choreographer Jerome Robbins, no one has done more to reinvent the modern Broadway musical than the team of Director Harold Prince and Composer Stephen Sondheim. In four successive collaborations-Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures-they have proved that America's foremost indigenous theatrical form can accommodate adult themes, unconventional music and innovative flights of staging and dance. Now Prince and Sondheim have adapted one of their shows to the screen, and the results are perversely stupefying. The film version of A Little Night Music looks less like a daring Prince...
...merit than on chance and a talent for the hard-sell con-job. And when he dies at the end of the play--a lonely middle-aged man who is more a victim of The Success Story than its hero-prosperous pre-Depression America goes down with him. Stephen Toope's Moorehouse lacks the strength to carry this broad, demanding part. He takes what is essentially a string of stereotyped roles--the various stages of Moorehouse's life--and produces hollow caricatures of the stereotypes. Toope masters the young man's engaging smile and the power-hungry eyes...
...Stephen G. Young New Canaan, Conn...
BEYOND AND BACK Directed by James L. Conway Screenplay by Stephen Lord...