Word: theoni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for violin, viola and orchestra, it casts two ballerinas as the solo instruments, the brilliant Gregory as the violin, the mellower Van Hamel as the viola and surrounds them with a corps tracing patterns and recombining in gentle, eloquent classical phrases. Designer Theoni V. Aldredge has fashioned what must be the most beautiful tutus in years, and when the ballet fills the stage it becomes a superplum paradise. Symphonie Concertante is the kind of sturdy piece that ballet troupes survive on and that Balanchine provided as effortlessly as a man sowing a garden...
...Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," she puts equal stress on "potent" and "cheap" so that the fun is missing and the meaning is blurred. What she has doffed in avoirdupois she has put on in ancien Louis B. Mayer régime costumery, particularly one black-and-white Theoni V. Aldredge outfit that makes her look like a Hollywood penguin...
...looks graceful and distinguished in a tuxedo, though his shoe-heels are about three inches too high for the 1930s of Private Lives) and Taylor, who enters confidently in a low-cut nightgown and robe. But, in keeping with the tone of the evening. Taylor soon changes into a Theoni Aldredge purple sequined gown that, were the actors not a hundred feet away, would undoubtedly become her violet eyes...
...evanescent as dreams. What is palpably dazzling merges imperceptibly with razzle-dazzle. The sheer richness of the surrounding technique and texture blanches the text. Robin Wagner's scenic design consists of stark metal, light-crammed towers that move and revolve to form a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns. Costumer Theoni V. Aldredge must have purchased her swatches from a rainbow merchant to fashion the slinky, sequined gowns, and Tharon Musser's lighting is a palette of explosive colors...
Crimes of the Heart. Three sisters, nurtured in Southern gothic grotesquerie, induce spasms of laughter in Beth Henley's Pulitzer-prizewinning drama. Dreamgirls. A pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...