Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glitter and good will. These gaudy little baubles are easy enough to tolerate in the floodtide of fellowship that ebbs and flows around Christmas. Holidays are over, however, a cold wet January is upon the land, and The Slipper and the Rose lingers on, looking as foolish as Cinderella hotfooting it out of the palace as her ball gown turns to rags...
Indeed-and alas-this is Cinderella's story, retooled for music by the Sherman brothers (Mary Poppins), who specialize in producing viscous show tunes...
...Cinderella's charmed evening is fated to end in disgrace, however. Her enemies engineer her election as prom queen, only to ruin her moment of triumph by dousing their unsuspecting victim with a vat of blood--an especially cruel reminder of the scene in the showers. DePalma has obviously deemed this moment as the climax of the film; he drags the viewer through an agonizing five-minute sequence shot entirely in slow motion. Discordant violin strains accompany the doomed couple as they ascend to the stage. The glow of Carrie's face pains us all the more as the camera...
...week-end of November 12-14 means a choice between Pilobolus, Margalit Dance Theater and the opening performances of the Boston Ballet. This first program includes Serenade, Scotch Symphony and Prodigal Son by Balanchine and Cinderella by resident choreographer Ron Cunningham. (I've never seen any of these works, but they all seem to be about kids' fairy tales.) At the Boston Ballet tickets can be expensive, and the audience overdressed, but Balanchine looks just as interesting from the balcony...
...Seville, probably because of its emphasis on bravura ensemble work over traditional solo arias. Further, the title role is written for an almost extinct species, the coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like...