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Since a lot of the non-musical, non-Shakespearian parts of the show have mediocrity built into them, even intermittent lapses into flat blues notes or beats that don't flow or dances that don't seem to matter threaten to do serious damage to the show. But it's a good enough show so its faults aren't disastrous. In fact, by the time everything comes together, somewhere around "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," the show is bordering on high comedy. And I guess maybe a case could be made for occasional tediousness as authenticity: "a very excellent piece...
Hamlet. (1969) PBS opens its new "Humanities Film Forum" series with director Tony Richardson's cinematic adaptation of his London stage production of the Shakespearian tragedy. Nicol Williamson stars as the Prince of Denmark, portraying Hamlet as an anti-hero in a markedly modern interpretation of the role. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
...insane. The women in the Shaft films are merely repositories for the super-stud's semen. And as if there aren't enough real monsters to contend with in the ghetto, the king of horror films. American International, has a top grosser in Blacula, a movie that features Shakespearian actor William Marshall as a black vampire...
...Stage," in English. Barry Boys looked like a mock, effeminate Paladin, if you can imagine such a creature, in his black slacks and black dueling shirt; every time a dramatic gesture was forthcoming, he took a gun fighter's stance. His delivery was like that of a turbid Shakespearian actor, Edwin Booth, perhaps, at the Ford Theater. Barnum and Bailey could have found a better barker. Who sold this guy to Yevtushenko, I don't know and why Yevtushenko not only let him butcher the lyrics but also appeared to approve of the fallen, uneven slices is beyond poetic sensibility...
...production now running at the Park Square Motor Hotel, The Fantasticks is presented with zest and with an understanding of what this kind of half-serious Little Mary Sunshine romance is about. Boy and girl are beset by their conniving fathers, who arrange for a cowboy, a tired Shakespearian actor, and an Indian to stage a "quality rape" of girl so that boy may save her and their marriage may be lasting. This results in immense confusion, but the evils of the world and the power of Love are established on the way to a happy ending. The Fantasticks keeps...