Word: walk-on
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Isadora (Marian Seldes) acts it out at the front, along with just about every one else who marched by during the first quarter of this century. Even Stanislavsky has a walk-on, mimicking Marlon Brando's Stanislavsky-inspired Stanley Kowalski. Isadora dutifully responds as Blanche DuBois: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...
...knows how to pace his material for maximum interest - when to summarize, when to show a scene in full. The dialogue is artful enough to sound natural. In his descriptive prose every word works quietly to inspire the illusion that things are happening by themselves. Even Emily's walk-on lovers are able to stand - as characters - on their own two legs...
That is about all that can be said for this work, which was commissioned and introduced by the Opera Company of Philadelphia last week, with the composer staging the work and taking a walk-on role. The hero in question, David Murphy (Baritone Dominic Cossa), has been asleep in the four-poster for ten years. His self-centered wife Mildred (Mezzo Diane Curry) has long since removed the mis from her misfortune by putting David on public display. She has even installed a tape recorder to immortalize his every snore. The drama comes to life, so to speak, when David...
...walk-on part at Los Angeles International Airport went smoothly enough; walking off the jumbo jet in London, however, proved to be Actress Rita Hayworth's undoing. When her plane landed at Heathrow Airport after the ten-hour flight, the flaming redhead star of such '40s films as Gilda and Blood and Sand, now 57, flatly refused to disembark. "Miss Hayworth started shouting and waving her arms about," said an airline official. "She did not want to leave the plane." When she finally agreed to go more than a half-hour later, aides quickly spirited her away...
...LaZebnik a chance to play around with Milton and Shakespeare jokes. Some are good: "To be or not to be," someone begins. "Well, there's nothing to be gained by pursuing that line of thought." The appearance onstage of Satan, Adam, Eve, and God (as well as a deadpin walk-on by St. Peter Borowitz that steals the show for a few moments is a source or clever lines for LaZebnik, usually Satan sings...