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...pilots, a hot new character has emerged. Meet a hero for the 1990s: the dead. Or nearly dead. Or just back from the dead. But don't be spooked. Hollywood believes this could be fun and meaningful at the same time. Just listen to the sales pitch for a script being peddled around the studios right now: "It's a Ghost kind of Die Hard. It's a Home Alone Ghost. Better, it's a Ghost Alone...
...film, Switch, tells the story of a male chauvinist pig who dies and returns to earth as a woman, believes spirit-filled movies are popular because "the kids are searching for something. Filmmakers are merely attempting to tap it." Producer Robert Lawrence recently paid $2 million for a proposed script called Manhattan Ghost Story. Says he: "In these films you can moralize without sermonizing...
With the rebels only 75 miles from the capital, the President discredited and the army demoralized, the script would seem to be preordained for Ethiopia. Liberia and Somalia have provided the worst kind of models in the past year: the government falls, blood splatters the capital, thousands flee the country, tribes and clans clash, anarchy prevails. This time, the foreshadowing has prompted an earnest attempt to rewrite the scenario. The chief scribe is the U.S., which until recently, when the Soviets became less active in the region, had little influence over Ethiopia's quasi-Marxist combatants...
West Side Story: Director David Eggar's modernization of the script resulted in some incongruous moments, but a capable, energetic cast, Christine Van Kipnis's stunning choreography and near professional production values made for an enthralling show. As Maria, China Forbes sung beautifully, and Cori Peterson's Anita would have impressed fans of Rita Moreno. Kudos also to the multi-story freeway bridge which Matt and Mark Buchanan designed as the centerpiece of the set. One only wishes that Eggar had removed a jarring dream sequence which replayed Tony and Maria's courtship as transvestite vaudeville...
...Name is Alice: Jennifer Giering's decidedly non-experimental production featured energetic staging, sweet and simple dancing and Larry O'Keefe's skillful piano accompaniment. No voice stood out, but the ensemble blended well and brought out the humor in an entertaining, though hardly brilliant, script. Given the show's conventional approach towards feminism, the audience's biggest question was why Giering staged A...My Name is Alice in the Loeb Experimental Theater...