Word: theoni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There must be something good to say. Let us say yea for the way Theoni V. Aldredge has turned back the decades with the gracious flow of her costumes. And a resounding yea for David Mitchell's set, with its misty evocation of San Francisco and the ability to structure a home that looks lived in. But, alas, a frame doth not a picture make...
...music of Charles Strouse would scarcely inspire an organ-grinder's monkey to rattle his cup, and Martin Charnin's lyrics are for beginning lip readers. On the plus side, David Mitchell's settings have an imposing splendor, Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes are period perfect, and Peter Gennaro's choreography pleasurably animates what is basically a placid show...
...Baby. But after marrying Conductor Andre Previn, she opted for domestic life in England with the couple's twin sons and their adopted Vietnamese daughter. Quiet, sparrow-thin and doe-eyed, Mia hardly seems a candidate to play Fitzgerald's teasing, haughty heroine. Yet in Theoni Aldredge's exquisite period costumes, she is at the very least the most beautiful thing in the picture...