Word: witness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Much like Wagner's Lohengrin and Puccini's La Boheme, the works of this opera have become a part of our popular perception of the genre. But while the musical style may be familiar, anyone who thinks he or she knows Rossini will be surprised by the vibrant humour, wit and irony in the Lowell House production of his most overlooked opera...
...with a nasty patron; and in 82 minutes, 15 perforated corpses. But that's just the outline. Rodriguez, who's been making films since he was 12, and whose short comedy Bedhead won prizes at 14 festivals, realizes that even splattered blood can get tired if there's no wit and bustle in the execution. His mentors -- Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Sam Raimi -- knew how to do it, and Rodriguez is a fast learner. Every shot (of an astounding 2,000 in the movie, about four times the average) is an aerobic workout for the eyes -- a delirious too much...
...prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain as an arm in a sling gets wrenched anew) and Jack Wallace as a veteran cop full of salty scorn for anything he cannot understand. The opening act is a fast 90 minutes of wit and surprise; the shorter second act eventually winds down into wearying explication and mawkish reconciliation, yet a saving vitality lingers...
...short plays, Ugly Duckling contains the sharper wit. In Milne's story, a wino King (Winsome Brown) and vain Queen (Charles Guerrero) are looking to marry off their ugly daughter, Princess Camilla (Andrea Thome) to the eagerly awaited Prince Simon (Alexandre Schneiders...
...Hill dropped the original music and wrote new lyrics to arias by Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti. Lloyd Webber considered producing an embellished version of it, then decided to do his own. Thank heavens. Hill's backstage farce is a kind of Noises Off without the wit, and the cast plays it as hammy gaslight farce -- a penny dreadful that at today's prices plays like a $32.50 dreadful. It alights this week in Indianapolis and Kansas City, Missouri...