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...Rice's story has holes to plug and a narrative in need of streamlining, but it offers him a contemporary setting for his favorite theme: the pernicious lure of stardom, whether biblical, political or intellectual. His lyrics mix roguish wit (Bangkok contains the unlikely couplet "Tea, girls--warm and sweet--warm, sweet/ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with sophistication...
Choosing a star to play the late C. and W. Singer Patsy Cline proved a simple gambit: you take the girl out of Country, and you will get a lot of country out of the girl. Jessica Lange, 35, also got something out of Sweet Dreams, due at theaters in the fall. After a series of roles in which "a lot was internalized," Lange enjoyed playing someone whose "personality was so external that she held nothing in." To look as well as emote the part, Lange tucked her blond locks under a series of brunet wigs, and Cline's mother...
...class, especially since she is not part of it. Here it is 1947, and what with food rationing and the gentry hoarding giblets in their attache cases, Joyce can't get a decent piece of meat. Not, at least, until Betty comes to visit. A plump sow with a sweet disposition, Betty is the Chilverses' ticket to burgherhood--if only Gilbert can bring himself to slit the throat of his new companion. "It's not just pork. It's power," Joyce tells her sweet, weak husband. "Kill your friend!" Can he resist Joyce's way with the whip--especially when...
...tale begins with nothing more complicated than the arrival of a new, kind, motherly governess charged with the task of looking after a charming pair of children. Margery Hellmold, with a strong, cultivated voice, rejoices in the fact that the children are so sweet, happy and loving. But we listen with a sense of forboding. For in the music there is a undercurrent of fear. And there is a sinister taint to the subtly gothic set designed by the well known author and illustrator Edward Gorey...
...dark secret, hidden in the walls of the house permeates the very air. Its force seep, into the minds and the bodies of Miles and Flora, the two unfortunate children. With a clear, sweet soprano voice Flora (Lisa Zeidenberg) sings to her doll and prattles to her governess. Mile (Edmond John Donlon III) appears equally childish and pure. Although he sings rather shakily, not is as boisterous as a high-spirited little boy should be. But he is the center of the evil, and we soon learn that things have been done here that are not good...