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McDonagh, Don
unspoken, and as a result Finney too begins to seem remote, a miniature observed under glass rather than the tragic under- achiever of Lowry's mythic vision. When it was screened at the Cannes...
...But there isn't anything valedictory about it, nor is it the work of an old man holding on to his power, however precariously, as if for the last time...
...Faced with a mammoth deficit from the poorly attended Spring 1983 season, ABT responded vigorously...
...sisters, played en travestie by men, axe reliable knockabout Despite the glitter of the dtcor, the sumptuousness-- some-clowns exploited to the fullest, both at home and at the ball...
...The shorter running time is better...
...They of the most expensive production it has ever mounted, ABT almost cry out for the sort of movement ornamentation that is has made a courageous act of faith...
...The point is made quite explicitly in the finale when all the characters join in a grand promenade as if to say they have played their parts but it's just a story, that nothing should be taken too seriously...
...developed star presences in the Soviet Union quite often make DON McDONAGH Books: AGAINST THE SECULAR PROJECT [ T HE SUDDEN APPEARANCE of a potent TBE NAEED PUBLIC SQUABE Neuhaus's book is an extended argu- religious new right on the American RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA ment against the notion that American political scene just prior to the 1980 elec- Richard John Nenhaus democracy can survive in a purely secu- tion, and its continuing importance, pro- Eerclmans, $16.95, 280 pp...
...been a success...
...Dance THE GOLDEN SLIPPER FROM ASHES TO ASSETS W HATEVER ELSE it may be, American Ballet Theatre's production of "Cinderella" is no stepchild...
...The reaction of the public has been anything but irresistibly humorous as first the stepmother and then the ambiguous...
...What of the production itself...
...Once postponed because of a 1982 dancers' strike, it has become a knight in shining armor sturdily protecting the fiscal integrity of the company...
...Just after comforting Cinderella who has Bissel, Marianna Tcherkassky and Danilo Rdojevic, and been berated by her domineering sisters, the cat suddenly Cheryl Yeager and Ross Stretton...
...of "Cinderella" were given, box office response was gratifyThe choreography at this character level is well shaped, ingly substantial, as well as for all other performances...
...lax society, a proposition which he re- vides Richard John Neuhaus with a gards as a poor though currently popular highly topical starting point for an impor- reading of our national identity and one William M. Sullivan tant argument...
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...FOSTER HIRSCH (Foster Hirsch, one of the guest critics reviewing movies for Commonweal, is the author of Film Noir...
...The cost of the production is placed at $925,000...
...Powerfully hearted scullion has saved the day...
...Cops' foolishness whenever possible...
...It was he who fought for "Cin- derella" and co-choreographed it with Peter Anastos...
...He is not a raphy so dutifully, as is the custom in the West, they found standard character in the story, but was introduced by Michael themselves pallid in comparison to the cat, stepsisters, and Fokine in a 1938 London production...
...Melville Straus replaced Donald M.Ken- dall as chairman, and Herman Krawitz resigned as Executive Director...
...Three young women all Perhaps Baryshnikov and Anastos are correct in their but turn themselves inside out trying to fit into the slipper when analysis of the Prokofiev score...
...The Dark Side of the Screen and the forthcoming A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio [Norton...
...During the company's recently completed national tour, it has been given extravagant costuming and elaborate settings, ABT's largest number of alternating principal casts, and ex- tensive advertising exposure...
...At the conclusion of the Spring '8~ season, he requested that he not be paid for adminis- trative duties...
...I yr: $25 2 yrs: $40 The Canadian Catholic Review C 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S6N 0W6 10 August 1984:439 all over the prince's kingdom is not missed...
...Before starting work on the piece Baryshnikov The first entrance of the Prince to the ball finds all of his made it clear that he was not going to appear in it...
...It is, first of all, not a traditional telling of the tale with emphasis on Cinderella's innate nobility of character shining through the tatters.This production maintains a certain emotional distance...
...A scene with cobblers from THE POPE SPEAKS TO CANADA The COMPLETE text of the addresses of Pope John Paul II during his visit to Canada will be published by the Canadian Catholic Review Ideal for individual reading for study groups, for the class room...
...The Board of Directors underwent a number of changes...
...During the financial crisis that occurred after the disastrous Spring '83 season, no one seemed to have noticed that Baryshnikov's contract had expired...
...The two performing success...
...gious militancy is often not a substantive Commonweal: 4#0...
...At times, it seems to be a comment upon the preposterousness of the fairy tale itself rather than a whole-hearted exposition of it...
...Jerry friendship...
...So far this has not been so with "Cinderella...
...The Naked Public Square with highly destructive potential...
...Neuhaus For Neuhaus the uproar over the public ing interests bereft of any ties of civic notes that the opposition to the new reli- role of religion sparked by Rev...
...Nor did he bring it up...
...Dances devised for the Struggling free of a major burden of debt by assuming the costs principals axe consistently less interesting and inventive...
...In each of the cities in which benefit performances sisters try to stuff grossly unsuitable feet into its tiny confines...
...The latter's post was abolished, its operations de- volving on Charles Dillingham who remained as General Manager...
...Instead, the pure- an opportunity for exercising individual display...
...Presumably performance fees, choreographic royalties and the like will continue as previously...
...States is or ought to be a wholly secular argument...
...Between the opening in Washington and its first appearance in New York the production was cut by about twenty minutes...
...naked square, a sandy arena of contend- ceived as a sacred enterprise...
...He has been proven right, but at a price...
...times oversumptuousness --of the costumes, and the wit, The four soldiers in the Prince's retinue tend to a Keystone there is an emotional lack in the ballet...
...This is the development of a prac- traditional religious militancy, and tinctly at odds with the disdainful anxiety tice and understanding of public life Neuhaus's judgment of the value of the familiar in much contemporary discus- premised on the notion that the United religious right develops out of the larger sion of the fundamentalist resurgence...
...If it were subjects facing the wrong way...
...I have dominant, alternating between kittenish behavior and semi- seen three casts of principals: Megali Messac and Patrick human posturing...
...The result has been the sort of box-office success ABT badly needed but could scarcely have anticipated...
...This develops an interpretation of the recent context distinguishes The Naked Public political militancy of traditionalist Chris- Falwell and his compatriots finds its sig- Square from the already considerable lit- tianity which, while in disagreement nificance in a larger, longer-term proc- erature on the political significance of with the thrust of that movement, is dis- cess...
...All followed the choreog- pounces playfully at the bristles of her broom...
...It may be wrongheaded, but this version of Under the Volcano is exactly the film that Huston wanted to make...
...Bloodless, without poetry or intellect or emotional power, Under the Volcano is nonetheless a work of unfaltering control, of pro- fessional discipline, signed unmistakably by the same terse, hard director who made Treasure of the Sierra Madre thirty-six years ago...
...Again and again the slipper proves in intent...
...Baryshnikov has agreed to remain as Artistic Director for art indefinite period without a contract...
...But Neuhaus has a larger story to tell society...
...The cat, who is ordinary material seem made of finer stuff than is actually the Cinderella's only friend and confidant, seems to be more case...
...into the scene of this production which takes advantage of Despite this lack of brilliance at the center, the ballet has every opportunity for humor...
...This is his idea of the novel, a romantic triangle that demonstrates (as the ads proclaim) that "one cannot live without love...
...When it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last spring, journalists seemed eager to label Under the Volcano the swan song of a Hollywood master...
...They have found it ambiguous the Prince visits their home...
...Only a tap on the shoulder by going to be a success, it would be a company, not a personal one of his soldiers makes them aware of his presence...
...Artistically, Mikhail Baryshnikov's position in the company was enhanced, although his formal ties to ABT seemed to have weakened...
...The cat seems to fit right assorted hangers-on...
...beautifully timed, and imaginative...
...Neuhaus maintains that by de- The positive significance of the reli- which opens up the whole tangled matter nuding the public forum of religious gious new right is that "it is forcing to the of the relation between religion and meaning and references this secularist forefront the question of 'religious American public life and the beating of philosophy is destroying an irreplaceable America' --the ways in which the Amer- the relationship on a host of contempo- inheritance, leaving only a bleak and ican experiment is appropriately con-rary controversies...
...At present the most he will say is that he may appoint someone to share his duties since he has the option of pursuing private projects which may include performing with other companies...
...Between its opening at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C...
...Failure might have the accepted practice in the Soviet Union where a text is seen as threatened the company's entire existence...
...on December 20, 1983 and its first presentation in New York on April 24, 1984 at the Metropolitan Opera House, the invest- ment was paid back many times over...
Vol. 111 • August 1984 • No. 14
