Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Hurrah for the U.S. elections! Imagine any other country that would take off one year every four and launch the world's biggest and most costly circus with a cast of more than 200 million that entertains the rest of us for free...
...entirely after winning a paltry 12% of the votes in Wisconsin, the chief battleground. On the Republican side, maverick John Anderson won only 28% of the Wisconsin vote, a third-place showing so poor that it wrecked whatever hope he had left of winning the G.O.P. nomination. It also cast doubt on his ability to lead a vigorous third-party challenge, though he is leaning more than ever in that direction...
SUCH A solemn opera is bound to be slightly melodramatic, but this cast manages to avoid it somehow. The problems, however, include a few weak stage blockings, causing overcrowding in the corners of the stage. The white vs. black costume motif molds the opera into a fairy tale rather than allowing it to unfold like a mystery...
...actor, Dean provokes the paradoxical mixture of sympathy and loathing the role calls for--he is us, but we don't have to like him for it. Lisa Sloan is marvelously attractive and genuine as Kathy Marianne Owen, a consummate actress when intact, is literally hobbled by a huge cast on her leg that forces her to lumber around the stage, punctuating her speech with thrusts of an orthopedic cane, in a way Adrienne, without a broken foot, never would...
...Childress' Wedding Band adds two twists to the usual plot of interracial sex stories. First, the male character is white; second, he and the female character are in love. But rather than use these unusual plot contrivances to probe new ideas from a different perspective, Childress presents a familiar cast of Southern caricatures--racists and saints--and often falls prey to didactic sermonizing that spoils this noble work about racial prejudice...