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...title role beyond that found in almost all other stagings in memory, Beale has clearly solidified his position as one of the greatest actors of his generation. A little further down the Thames, Mark Rylance also spent the summer tackling the melancholy Dane at Shakespeare's Globe Theater. Though reaction to his weak and weepy interpretation of Hamlet was poor, there was a general admiration of the quality of the production in general. Thanks to Rylance, London theater elites seemed to heave a collective sigh of relief at the realization that the fledgling Globe will not simply become an Elizabethan...
...place. Dealing with issues of physical and historical certainty through a meeting between the physicists Neils Bohr (Phillip Bosco) and Werner Heisenberg (Michael Cumpsty), the show is performed on a bare set designed to resemble a Bohr model of an atom. It would be a real shame, though, to write off this show. In fact, if given the attention it deserves, the play proves as thought-provoking and as captivating as any new play in recent memory. The acting, particularly that of Tony-winner Blair Brown, is as intense and focused as the direction. It is difficult to summarize...
...What his renditions of the classic songs 'Trouble' and '76 Trombones' lack in depth character, they more than make up for in energy. Rebecca Luker delivers a surprisingly arresting performance as Marian the Librarian, and her voice remains rich and beautiful. The choreography, too, is largely enjoyable to watch, though it certainly doesn't break with any conventions. Unfortunately, a few concrete and probably financially-motivated decisions put a damper on the proceedings and prevent the show from achieving the giddy heights of, say, the recent Kiss Me, Kate revival. First, the sound is grossly overamplified. Sound design has become...
Contact defies easy categorization. Though it won the Tony Award for Best Musical and is billed as a Dance Play, the show contains almost no dialogue; rather, it consists of three seemingly-unrelated scenes performed in dance. Unlike a ballet, though, the three plots are explicit and are not subjugated to the dance...
...think about it--and that has brought her both gargantuan fame and the stigma of arrogance. There is no question that Madonna has developed into somewhat of a pretentious personality. She clings to a smarmy British accent, bashes Britney Spears and the other teen pop stars even though her early music was just as packaged and diluted, complains about the "sucky" scripts being sent to her even though she can't act her way out of a paper bag, and even carps about the nudity in the British tabloids--this from the woman who posed lasciviously with animals...