Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help of two ingratiating stars. Cybill Shepherd as Maddie not only looks wonderful but proves to be an assured and ; appealing light comedian. As her partner in crime solving, Bruce Willis is more than her match. With his thick-necked macho charm, Willis brings a Bill Murray-esque tone of put-on to the witty patter. The show's dialogue is possibly the fastest on TV, the stories are briskly paced and unobtrusive, and Shepherd gets lots of loving close-ups. Moonlighting is a snazzy entry that deserves a full-time job on ABC next fall...
...Shostakovich. If his scrupulously maintained low profile was the antithesis of Stokowski's flamboyant showmanship, he nevertheless insisted on a uniformly high performance standard, which can be heard on the hundreds of recordings he made with the Fabulous Philadelphians. Above all, Ormandy refined and deepened his orchestra's velvet tone to the point where he could justifiably say, "The Philadelphia sound...
...Rack Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? is to keep its audience laughing not to loss moral ball to the audience. Though the play does loss out some interesting ethical questions in passing, few of the issues raised go beyond the semi-serious tone of the title...
With the transition from elementary to high school in the second act, the play witnesses a surge of physical energy. The songs become more explicit!" sexual in tone, the conflict between spirit and flesh more prominent. All of this makes for some intersting satire, including a rendition of "Mad Bomber" by the guys' physical education class and "Saving Ourselves for Marriage" by their female counterparts. By far the most successful satirical seene, though, is the high school dance, in which the mins don black sunglasses and rock in doo-wop harmony...
...conclusion of the play seems a bit on the corny side, it is, in light of the overall tone of the production, appropriately uplifting. The play makes no pretensions of exploring moral conflict with any real rigor, and it is in fact precisely because the cast sidesteps the temptation to treat the show as a spinoll of Sister Mary Ignatius that it works so well...