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...including Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones, a founding member of the ART, and writer Larry Gelbart, creator of the hit TV series M*A*S*H* and bookwriter of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum. Brustein also enlisted the help of production designer Michael Yeargan and director Andrei Serban...
...situation may have begun to sour when Yeargan refused to design the play after seeing the script. He “could not bring himself” to do it, reports Brustein...
...Francisco Opera has done its best by Previn's first opera: Colin Graham's direction is crisp, Michael Yeargan's sets are suitably sleazy, and Renee Fleming pours heart and soul into the role of Blanche DuBois. But Previn's well-bred score barely hints at the dark crosscurrents of obsession and desperation that made Tennessee Williams' play so naggingly memorable. This slow-moving Streetcar is tonal but tuneless, sometimes violent but never sexy. Even the bluesy bits are oddly polite--an unexpected letdown from a composer-conductor who plays first-rate jazz piano on the side. Let's face...
From the opening storm to the final kiss, this Otello displays all the strengths of modern production technique. The previous version, by Franco Zeffirelli, had sets so detailed that they looked suitable for a CinemaScope film. With their marble pillars and faux Titians, Michael Yeargan's new designs are nearly as lavish, but they are more subdued, allowing director Elijah Moshinsky to personalize the drama. Otello clutches his head in pain after his triumphant conquest of the Turks in Act I, prefiguring his complete moral and physical collapse two acts later; Desdemona tenderly but gingerly strokes her husband's face...
...imaginative directing of Serban, who returns this season to direct Sweettable at the Richelieu, the set by Michael Yeargan and the original, Chinese-tinted music by Elliot Goldenthal have combined for a perfect blend of the comically tongue-in-cheek, hip, innocent and wise...