Word: tyrolean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway version of Chess is daringly different from London's gaudy expressionistic phantasm. That show's chess matches are displayed on 128 video screens and refereed by a surreal punk; the production hopscotches from a Tyrolean resort to British boardrooms to Bangkok's red-light district, each cartoonishly evoked. Nunn took over in London, two weeks before rehearsals started, when the late Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls) was stricken with AIDS. Says Nunn: "By the time I came into the project, it was designed and cast, and the basic narrative decisions had been taken...
Normally, at least in the mind's eye, these pneumonia festivals are staged in intimate Tyrolean villages built on the order of cuckoo clocks and peopled largely by Peter Sellers. But this year's host, for 16 days starting Saturday, is Calgary, Canada, a prairie town muscled into an oil capital, a sprawling city in every sense. Venues may seem a bit more scattered than usual, but this is where Canadian ingenuity comes in. The writer Pierre Berton offers a definition: "A Canadian is someone who could make love in a canoe." After all, isn't intimacy part balance...
...festival included 60 stands extending from the corner of John F. Kennedy and Brattle Streets and featured yodelers, Tyrolean singers and vendors of bratwurst, sauerkraut and beer...
...Sound of Music, based on the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical comedy, satisfies nearly all the requirements for what moviemakers tout as wholesome family entertainment. It is tuneful, cheerful and colorful-exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. It celebrates courage-the real-life daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Though Director Robert Wise has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults.' In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice...
...Vienna with bath and breakfast costs about $100, but is not even half as much in the provinces. The Austrians have developed a variety of "hobby vacations," ranging from a course in engine driving on a narrow-gauge railroad to auto racing with formula Fords. Village festivals include Tyrolean wrestling matches, boatmen's jousting on the Salzach River, and the special day when the cattle are driven down for the winter from the high Alpine pastures. The festivities are invariably accompanied by the oompah of local brass bands in native costume; the Austrian Tourist Board claims that there...