Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg pee Auml movie review prizewinning novelist to stay in West Little night music suffers from Liz Taylors tiny voice j by Gary Arnold the Washington Post Elizabeth Taylors voice never quite grew Al though Taylor managed to cultivate some Bitchy sounds in a few pictures notably who afraid of Vir Ginia Woolf the Basic vocal instrument has remained thin and now that her physique has grown its a Shock to hear such a tiny voice com ing the movie version of a Little night music never re covers from the first disillusioning closeup of Taylor la Boring to lift her voice in it sets a pattern of incongruity and miscalculation that director Harold Prince has been unwary enough to sustain throughout the entire take your pick of the least astute and rewarding film musicals of recent years new new the Blue at Long last lost Hori song of what Ever your a Little night music underachiever them never a a Little night music virtually Petri fies on Why was Tay Lor selected for the Lead in the first place its been some time since she generated either kinetic or Bozof fice the role of Desiree a Turnof the Century theatrical Star who adroitly sets a romantic trap for her Elover a com Angela not one to fret by William Glover new York a an Gela Lansbury never frets about her Stellar doing something different is what i always like to try new to dare the ver Satile blonde poo Poohs the play Safe protocol usually associated with Stag screen i think the Public really enjoys seeing an actress try the they know i like meaty three Broadway Tony awards and As Many Holly Wood Oscar nominations help sustain such an the Glamor privileges that come with acclaim leave her i just dont believe that kind of thing is she once to which she now i dont live just to such Blithe of fools no one familiar with the dedication of a per former for whom acting is As natural As swimming or absent from Broadway for four miss Lansbury is appearing until april 30 in the Uris theatre hit revival of the King and i As a Vaca Tion although the Rodgers Hammerstein musical hardly rates As a risky her willingness to be a Mere fillin raised eyebrows among fellow a lot of people cant quite she Why someone with Star reputation would do such a i regard it As a heaven sent Opportunity to get my motor running for the next musical in to and that Sweeney will have her out on a weird characterization a fascinating departure is her description of the show based on a Vintage British Case about a Homicidal bar she will portray a neigh Borly pie maker who helps Liim avid by Len former of Winnipeg Dis pose of iils composed by Stephen Sweeney Todd is scheduled for Broadway arrival in Yul Brynner and con stance the regular the King and i Are off on separate Cariou Placenta attorney waiting to consummate his to an ingenue requires humor and animation along with Eva Dahlbeck unified the necessary attributes when she originated the role in Ingmar of a summer the most elegant and satisfying bed room farce Ever written for the Taylor projects neither sexual cunning nor sexual in she resembles a figurehead on the prow of a when she she looks anxious and a Little like a pretty but overweight adolescent it defies belief when Diana Rigg and Lesleyann both in terrific must pretend to be jealous of Taylors Len Cariou formerly on Winnipeg a Holdover As the lawyer from princes Origi Nal Broadway production of the is not exactly scintillating screen company i the Only thing flatter than his personality is his the second male Laurence Guit also a transplant from the original suggests a slightly taller clone of Taylor judging from his casting Prince Hast the faintest notion of cinematic sexual seven years elapsed Between his first something for a precious Flop of and a Little night he had a lighter touch seven years obviously denied the Opportunity to perfect a film Prince May have aggravated his problems by relying on Arthur the least dynamic major Cinema tog in the even if the casting and staging had been the movie Empress lanes open Bowling times monday to sunday 9 to Midnight Moonlight Bowling nights to Alt you can bowl o 9 per person might never have survived Ibbetson lifeless compose characteristically Overlie and starved for graphic Energy and since Taylor is entrusted with the one remotely appealing and melodious song in Stephen Sondheim maddeningly sophisticated score Send in the clowns even the shows Ace in the Hole gets after enduring All those Tricky lyrics and miserly what is there to look Forward to a big number destined to Roll Over and play the musical collaborations of Prince and Sondheim re veal a Lack of a romantic sensibility that strikes me As a severe Lyric deficiency in they May not be so much the Savior of the Broadway musical As its most skilful coroners or mor the movie version of a Little night music is about As lyrically undernourished As musical can Edmonton up Altha Van who won a prize for her first says she wants to stay out West and write Good that the West is my the 23yeafold University of Alberta student said from Montreal where the award was Van of betas said she intends to write in Alberta where 1 can have a voice and not be lost in the muddle of people who go to Toronto and try to make she wrote much of Judith while working As a Cook in a Yukon Bush Camp last sum is already working a Book of Short stories and in tends to Start a second publisher Jack Mcclelland of Mcclelland and Stewart said the company will mar Ket the Book in it will also be brought out in the it is extremely rare for a novel As professional and As finished As this one to come out of a Young Mcclelland said in a Tele phone in we think we have not Only a writer with great Commer Cial Promise but also with literary set in Rural and Urban Al the novel concerns a Young women self disco very and relationships with Lover and the author expects to graduate the Spring with a masters degree in English and wrote Judith originally As a Short but she was told by Rudy a University of Alberta novelist who taught her creative writing for five that it had potential Tot a Weibe described Judith As a very Good but i dont think its nearly As Good a novel As Shes going to be writing five years from starts tomorrow Hanky v motor inn presents the sounds off Annie 1722 with entertainment by Brazilia Wilkommen Resi Dux entertains nightly in the lounge experience the festive oktoberfest atmosphere every evening sing along or just listen to rests singing or Oro pah pah you and your friends will experience at the Maryland motor hotel Maryland notre Dame 7885981 get Active socially meet some one Nice Kane dating club 283 Portage phone 9422997 our 19th big year plus restricted adult caged desires open cared desires her Odd tastes not line 7751735 enu theatre 801 Sargent 7746641 thru Friday terrific Coq Auvin of Chicken with wine sauce serve with 2 vegetables veal Scal Lopini Neptune crab 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