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...WEST SIDE WALTZ by Ernest Thompson...
...comes as a gift that the vehicle is literately written by Ernest Thompson and sensitively directed by Mark Rydell. On Golden Pond is a mature movie, and for the first time in years that does not make it an oddity. The youth audience the film industry has been wooing for more than a decade is growing up. According to an industry source, 43% of those Americans who regularly go to movies are now over 29 (only 25% were in that age group eight years ago). Very few major movies aimed at adolescents are being released this holiday season. Instead...
...heart disease, he still hopes to appear on Broadway next year as F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The West Side Waltz, prior to its Broadway opening next week. The play, written by On Golden Pond's Ernest Thompson, takes its own sweet three-quarter time to penetrate the twilight life of a Manhattan widow, but Hepburn triumphantly skirts sentimentality, displaying her radiance even as her character limps, hobbles and crawls toward accommodation with old age. The next time they meet, Hepburn might well say to Fonda what...
...smaller shows gear up to start, the Loeb's immense and detailed Threepenny Opera has only one weekend left to run. After surviving the sudden incapacitation of John Langdon, cast as J.J. Peachum, with the masterful pinchhitting aid of Ernest Kerns, Threepenny arrives on the stage with, if not quite a unified impact, certainly enough brilliant elements to satisfy any viewer...
...characters' presentation determines the effectiveness of Brecht's message, as assignment this production maintains overall. Ernest Kearns' Mr. Peachum has all the disgusting elements of the petit-bourgeois, and Kearns presents Peachum with a clear understanding of the action-provoking role. Because of the flatness with which Kearns delivers statements sympathetic to Brecht--"The law was made for the rich to exploit those who don't understand it"--he maintains distance from his character. In his dryness and his logic, his running about and his posing, Kearns reduces the "Beggar's Friend" to a common demoninator, strips him down...