Mysteriously missing from Fox's 2008 "Tyrone Power: Matinee Idol" boxed set, the film is presented here in an acceptable, off-the-shelf transfer (I'm guessing that the complex optical effects, which include a tornado hitting the unfinished canal, required more expensive restoration work than Fox was willing to pay for), but I'm grateful to have it in any form.
Theater set changeovers between matinee and evening performances can be viewed at no charge from the balcony with a member of the production staff.
LONDON — Was it the sight of the matinee idol (Jamie Glover) leaping up a set of stairs, the gravity-defying aplomb amplified by the fact that his shoelaces had been tied together?
(Thus far, Twitter shows no evidence of disgruntled theatregoers standing outside Sunday's matinee, holding their tickets aloft and setting them alight, like the draft cards in "Hair").
ON Wednesday, a trio of speedy mini-heroes flies off television sets to invade the summer matinee.
For the Met to finish a matinee with time left to dismantle the sets and move another production into place for an evening performance, "Götterdämmerung" must begin at noon.
The producers and Ms. Taymor and her co-creators, Bono and the Edge of U2, are also discussing how extensively to overhaul the script and music; how many outside consultants should be hired, and who; and when to open the show, which set a record at its Sunday matinee for the most preview performances ever, its 98th.
It reputedly centres on a 1920s matinee idol (Clooney) who signs up for an epic film set in ancient Rome.
"The Pied Piper" was paired at a family matinee on Saturday afternoon with Agnes de Mille's "Rodeo," set to Aaron Copland's evergreen score.
The day before, Mr. Quinto had appeared at a Cantor Fitzgerald 9/11 benefit held at BGC Partners (its trading floor reminding him of the set of his 2011 movie "Margin Call"), appeared in matinee and evening performances of "Menagerie" and made it to the Standard, High Line hotel for a New York Fashion Week party.
