Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demonstrate his superb musicianship and rare virtuosity: Chopin: 4 Ballades -- 4 Scherzi and Earl Wild Plays His Transcriptions of Gershwin (Chesky Records). Chopin's works vary widely in mood and tempo, yet Wild sustains the long singing lines that provide their pulse and shape. That singing -- with wit, warmth and Lisztian heroics -- defines Wild's Gershwin, especially his extended Fantasy on Porgy and Bess...
Thompson has that luck; she can bear the camera's scrutiny. Her face is common sense emitting star quality, wit raised to beauty. Her bright eyes and ironic smile suggest an intelligence of the cultivated heart -- what used to be called breeding. No wonder six of Thompson's eight feature films are period pieces, closer in spirit to the West End stage than to the West Coast sound stage. She is comfortable as Katherine in Branagh's Henry V or as Beatrice in his new film Much Ado About Nothing, as a 1930s English domestic in Remains...
...subject matter may sound trite, but the play itself astounds with constant wit and poignancy. The intensity of the action, with just four characters thrown together in a cramped Manhattan apartment, accentuates the emotional desert which these characters inhabit. The hysterically funny but caustic dialogue undercuts any romanticism in the relationships portrayed. Burn This propounds a pessimistic vision of human nature...
Romancing the Throne is a fine tribute to the spirit of the seventies, as well as the spirit of camp. In true (and false) for.n, its characters parade the carnival of artifice and wit. But the eighties are still with us. Toward the end of the first act, with delicious poise and speckled by light bouncing off a disco ball, Princess Diana Loneliness, played by Bart St. St. Clair, quips a triumphant line from Gloria Gaynor's classic " I Will Survive," which has taken on new and unforseen meanings in the era of AIDS...
...musical is a delightfully aware a journey into the wonders of artifice, decadence, play, wit, theatricality, self-parody and stylization. It references such eclectic sources as the environment, gay culture and feminism but treats them lightheartedly matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential...