Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Broadway Theatre Archive)
by Kirk Browning
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Actor: Eve Arden, James Coco, Kate Burton, Kaye Ballard, Richard BurtonDirector: Kirk Browning
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Nick Besink
Producer: Ann Blumenthal
Producer: Jac Venza
Producer: Susie Fassbinder
Writer: Eva Le Gallienne
Writer: Florida Friebus
Writer: Lewis Carroll
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Broadway Theatre Archive)
DVD Review: Watered down and hyped up distortion of the LaGallienne production.
Summary: 1 Stars
I still have the 1947 RCA cast recording of the original LaGallienne production, transferred from 78 RPM discs to a CD. It has never been reissued in any other format even as a historical document/ The sound is adequate and perhaps better than I can hear in my worn copy). In an earlier review of this DVD, another friend of Alice writes: "Richard Addinsell's lovely score highlights the production with fine performances all around." When I owned this DVD, I found Addinsell's indeed lovely score to have been badly reorchestrated and generally cheapened in presentation and performance.
Since I have known this adaptation of the Alice books since childhood and can recite and sing most of the original from memory, I was greatly saddened and disappointed by the 1982 reduction and adaptation. I currently own eight DVD or Blue-Ray versions (ranging from pleasantly adequate to brilliant) of Alice, but this is not among them. I sold my copy after watching it several times and trying to find something to like in it. Well, yes, the stage setting is well done. That's it. Beyond that, I rank it along with the cheap cartoon versions made for children's TV as neither witty nor wonderful. Both members of the Burton family miss the mark, she by her adult manner and papa by his gross overacting.
Lacking any availability of a recording of LaGallienne's production as she conceived it, I rejoice in the wit, wonder, and calculated Victorian wackiness of Jonathan Miller's 1967 adaptation (with Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, and Peter Cook, among other superb British actors) for the BBC available on DVD Alice in Wonderland. I recommend it to any who are interested in or fascinated by Lewis Carroll's Alice books. I note also that in the early 1950s there was what I recall as a quite faithful presentation of the 1947 production as adapted for television's Hallmark Hall of Fame - but of course those were the days of kinoscope and as far as I know no visual or aural record remains of that broadcast.
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