Blithe Spirit

(1956)

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Trinity Rep's Fred Sullivan Jr. has picked up an Elliot Norton Award for his work in last year's production of Blithe Spirit and for a performance in Boston of As You Like It. ... Full Article

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nypost.com2009-04-17
"BLITHE SPIRIT": **½ Angela Lansbury and Jayne Atkinson prevent director Michael Blakemore from completely smothering Noel Coward's comedy. Shubert Theatre, 225 W. 44th St.; 212-239-6200. ... Full Article

APRIL Fools' Day. The date America should really hold its elections. BEING April Fools' Day, I investigated the Shubert, where "Blithe Spirit" blithely sails along with Angela Lansbury playing a psychic, and where, seemingly, on their own, tables knock, windows... ... Full Article

ANGELA LANSBURY has slammed DENZEL WASHINGTON's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE remake, insisting it was destined to flop. Lansbury was Oscar-nominated for her role as the domineering mother of a brainwashed soldier in the John Frankenheimer film, and she admits she was... ... Full Article

NEW YORK - "We're merely mammals," Cole Porter observed in the lyrics of Let's Misbehave . In God of Carnage ( * * * ½ out of four), Yasmina Reza endorses a similarly egalitarian view of man's place in the... ... Full Article

NEW YORK - Hail to thee, "Blithe Spirit." The revival of Noël Coward's 1941 ghost story opened Sunday in a transcendent revival at the Shubert Theatre. ... Full Article

This conventional "Spirit" is more earth-bound. The set is basic, the pace on the slow side, and though the cast speaks the author's zingers with efficiency, the play doesn't fizz like this champagne should. ... Full Article

Blithe Spirit , which reached Broadway a third time March 15, at the Shubert, was just ending its original engagement here with Clifton Webb and Mildred Natwick in October of '43 when another blithe spirit (also English) was starting up... ... Full Article

The English actor Rupert Everett , one of the most erratic talents in showbusiness, has become the toast of Broadway for his performance in a revival of Noel Coward 's 1941 comedy Blithe Spirit , his first ever US stage... ... Full Article

There are abundant reasons for racing to top-drawer director Michael Blakemore's just-about-perfect revival of Noel Coward's 1941 boulevard-comedy trifle Blithe Spirit , now at Broadway's Shubert Theatre, but the chief attraction is definitely Angela Lansbury's side-splitting performance as the zany... ... Full Article

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