What held all these brilliant fledglings together was the old pro George Abbott, the commercial theatre's most hit-prone director.
Those old cliches come into play: the cigar-chomping producer with dollar signs in his eyes, vetoing the extravagant requests of the tantrum-prone director.
Never mind that "L'Avventura" is a sharply stylish movie and that in Antonioni's hands wardrobe does the work dialogue would for more talk-prone directors.
Mr. Ross gives a good account, if occasionally slipping into the kind of overripe hyperbole directors are prone and perhaps entitled to on disc.
Laura Skyhorse Allison Johnsonn) is a lawyer defending pro bono Garrett Cooke Denny Blakee, also the show's assistant musical director), a man prone to proclamations like "Give me Librium or give me meth!," and Sixx (Pat Mattingly), a hotheaded, emasculated pedophile.
No matter how good the phone's video quality is, it's still prone to shakiness as its director moves around.
Mann, a director occasionally too prone to emphasizing style over substance (the unnecessary Miami Vice movie, for example), here seems more obsessed with story than character.
Superintendent Richard Como and athletic director Jim Donato were prone to using the N-word and various other inflammatory terms in conversations with each other on school-issued phones.
Actually, he's kind of a jerk, in the way directors can be, prone to artsy jargon and slickly manipulative psychological games.
And with the electrical vault in the flood-prone basement, the library's director, Cynthia Koch, fears that a short in the system could set the place on fire and destroy the entire collection.
But his parts were small or undistinguished and, prone to alienating colleagues and directors with his biting comments, he was not invited to rejoin Olivier when the National Theater opened at the Old Vic.
