Teletext Recovery - 30/09/1990

P621 ORACLE 621 Sun30 Sep C4 2354:01  1/7        Debbie Collins  NEW BALLET IS SEASON'S HIGHLIGHT ■ A new ballet - the Taming of the Shrew - is the highlight of the English National Ballet's 1990/91 season. The full-length work by John Cranko will first be performed on the company's spring tour of the UK which begins in Southampton next April. Performances will follow in Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester and Oxford before the London premiere at the Coliseum from June 24-29. The second week of the Coliseum season features a Programme of one-act ballets. Cracker > Reviews Index 620 New Films 622 BUYING OR SELLING A HOUSE? see p281 New Movies Local Movies Plays Beat Box

P621 ORACLE 621 Sun30 Sep C4 2354:21  2/7        Debbie Collins  CHRISTMAS CRACKER ■ An old favourite sure to delight fans opens the English National Ballet's Christmas Season at the Royal Festival Hall in December. The ENB will perform Peter Schaufus' production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. The Summer Season at the Festival Hall will be brought to life with a repertoire that includes Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet and Coppelia. The 150th anniversary of the the Ballet will be celebrated with Mary Skeaping's Giselle also during the season. Kathleen Turner turns supersleuth > Reviews Index 620 New Films 622 New Movies Local Movies Plays Beat Box

P621 ORACLE 621 Sun30 Sep C4 2351:15  3/7        Debbie Collins  DETECTING A CHANGE ■ Hollywood sex symbol Kathleen Turner turns detective and hunts a killer for her next screen role. Turner, whose previous hit movies include War of the Roses, Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile with Michael Douglas, will portray a female sleuth in V I Warshawski. Fans of the duo will be disappointed but there's no way Douglas can co-star in the Chicago-based thriller...Turner teams up with a teenager to solve a murder in the city. Douglas may be sexy with youthful good looks, but they're not that youthful! Timothy Dalton > Reviews Index 620 New Films 622 New Movies Local Movies Plays Beat Box

P621 ORACLE 621 Sun30 Sep C4 2351:48  4/7        Debbie Collins  SOUL SEARCHING ■ Current James Bond Timothy Dalton is often described as a serious soul. In his next movie veteran actor Walter Matthau is fighting him for it. In The Visitor, Dalton's a Manhattan health worker whose soul is in immortal danger. Matthau's an agent of the devil out to get it but a good guy with a halo is prepared to put up a fight. Who's been earmarked to step into these angelic shoes? David Newman, writer and director of the whimsical saga, hopes to tempt cheeky chappie Michael Caine. Not a lot of people know that. stage > Reviews Index 620 New Films 622 New Movies Local Movies Plays Beat Box

P621 ORACLE 621 Sun30 Sep C4 2352:11  5/7        Debbie Collins  STAGE SNIPPETS ■ A musical version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn called Big River has been a smash hit in Australia. Now negotiations have started for a London version of the show. ■ It sounds corny but it's a great title anyway. The new musical from Richard Harris about three couples about to embark on parenthood has been given a name. No prizes for guessing, it's From Here to Maternity. ■ Other People's Money starring Martin Shaw and Maria Aitken opens at the Theatre Royal Bath on Tuesday prior to its West End transfer. more snippets > Reviews Index 620 New Films 622 New Movies Local Movies Plays Beat Box

P621 ORACLE 621 Sun30 Sep C4 2352:44  6/7        Debbie Collins  STAGE SNIPPETS ■ A musical of James Clavell's epic Shogun about a shipwrecked British sailor who becomes the first Western Samurai warrior opens soon on Broadway. ■ Prolific composer Stephen Sondheim isn't one to let the grass grow under his feet. His latest London project Into the Woods was greeted with acclaim this week but he's already moved onto pastures new. Sondheim is penning a musical - Assassins - about the killers or would-be killers of 11 US presidents ■ Mike Harding's new comedy Gollocks opens at Wimbledon Theatre on Monday. Film Clips > Reviews Index 620 New Films 622 New Movies Local Movies Plays Beat Box

P621 ORACLE 621 Sun30 Sep C4 2357:16  7/7        Debbie Collins  FILM CLIPS ■ The work of legendary wit Noel Coward is currently enjoying a revival. Joan Collins is packing them in to see his play Private Lives in London while a US producer is planning a movie version of the stage hit Hay Fever about a summer weekend at the home of a gaudy writer. ■ James Caan sheds his tough guy image in his next film For the Boys starring Bette Midler. He's had to learn to sing and dance... ■ Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer, both one time victims of the gutter press, are rumoured to be plotting their revenge in a film about tabloid papers Ballet > Reviews Index 620 New Films 622 New Movies Local Movies Plays Beat Box

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