Word: vaudevillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times post-modern, at times vaudevillian and it is frequently uneven. A bonus in all of this is the truly great moments that come with creative tinkering. The opening is funny, ingenious and anachronistic; a prologue entreating the 20th century audience to be indulgent and, one would suppose, to engage in willing suspension of disbelief...
...gender. Mastrantonio lacks the requisite androgyny but is otherwise faultless. Woodard, one of four black leads chosen in admirably color-blind casting, excels at seductive banter, and Andre Braugher is thrillingly intense as a pirate who risks his life to help a shipwrecked princeling. Hines serves mostly as a vaudevillian onlooker whose antics are a reminder that he is the premier tap dancer...
Performance artist. New vaudevillian. Silent clown. However you label limber-jointed Bill Irwin, he is one of the most winsome presences in the American theater. In the sketchbook Largely New York, which opened on Broadway last week, he wears a top hat and spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage...
Such is the tradition of a capella singing at Harvard--a vaudevillian combination of song, dance, burlesque humor, and occasionally, something a little more serious...
...shame that George Harrison's Handmade Films, which had become a trademark for quality silliness like Time Bandits or the darker Brazil, should sink to almost pre-Vaudevillian gags in Water. Then again, when the audience is laughing out loud, we often forget to hang on to the story line...