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...remake of Around the World in 80 Days, starring Jackie Chan. It was, says De France, a "big door of opportunity thrown open to my career." Yet she had to be coaxed into accepting the part. "I was already involved in a wonderful stage production of [August] Strindberg's Miss Julie with very close friends when the call from Los Angeles came saying I had the part - so I turned it down," admits De France. "It wasn't until several sleepless nights later, after a lot of urging from people, that I heard this voice say, 'Hey, Cécile...
...from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door to a primary school! And there's a bomb site that hasn't been cleared up since the 1940s. It's a fun, vivid world...
Your story "the feel-good remedy" about how Broadway shows have bounced back since Sept. 11 noted that "even such gloomy dramas" as August Strindberg's Dance of Death are doing strong business [THEATER, Oct. 29]. To judge from the laughter and applause filling the Broadhurst Theater the other night when I was there, Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren have transformed the play into a dance of life. No wonder it's resonating with audiences just now. ALEXIS XENAKIS Sioux Falls...
...most other Broadway shows have bounced back smartly since that plunge in attendance following the World Trade Center attacks. One of the four shows that closed, The Rocky Horror Show, is reopening. The Lion King and The Producers are selling out again. And even such gloomy dramas as Strindberg's Dance of Death are doing strong business. Marty Richards, whose musical The Sweet Smell of Success is coming to Broadway in March, is just one producer feeling that show-must-go-on adrenaline: "We're going full steam ahead. I don't think anything is going to kill Broadway...
...souls," said August Strindberg, referring to his characters in the preface to 1888's Miss Julie, "are conglomerates of past and present cultural phases, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, pieces torn from fine clothes and become rags, patched together as is the human soul."Working with what vague theatrical advice the twisted Swedish Victorian playwright had to offer, the impressive vision for the production in the Loeb Experimental Theater's black box stage by director Austin Guest '04 ought to be commended. But effort isn't everything, and this mostly freshman production falls flat due to excess...